THE SAL T LAKE MIN I N G REV lEW,
CALIFORNIA GOLD MINING IN 1849
By DON MAGUIRE
Ho:w frequently do we hear of the Days
of '49. The expression is not used as
frequently now as it was twenty-five to
forty years ago.. The term conveys to the
mind the simple palmy days of gold mining
in California immediately after its first
discovery in that country. When I use the
expression, simpIe palmy days, I allude to
the fact that gold was found everywhere
in the California gravels and over an area
about forty miles wide and about three
hundred miles in length. The entire west
watershed of the Sierra Nevada range pre:
sented opportunities for placer mining. In
some places gold was found in paying
quantities where there lay gravel bars
thirty to seventy feet in thickness. In
other places the gold values were found
in measures of gravel of from ten Inches
to three feet, with an over burden of non­
pay gravel in thickness from three to fifty
feet, but during the early years, from 1848
to 1855, a very large part of the gold was
taken from the gravel bars along mountain
streams, and from extensive flats where
the gravel lay in. measures of from six
inches to three feet in thickness and this
gravel paying splendidly from surface to
bedrock.
Those years were one romantic period of
American gold mining. Previous to 1847
money was scarce in the states of the
American Union. True, in the cotton and
sugar producing states of the old south
there was a good deal of wealth; and
money was quite- plentiful with the pros­
perous slaveholders, but gold and silver
coin was not plentiful. Over our country
at large people were generally poor and
the average man never had at any tIme
in his life a thousand dollars in coin, either
gold or silver. Those were the days of
the simple life in all our land. In ~orth
Carolina and Georgia gold had been wash­
oed from the gravels for about thirty years
and about 2,000 people made their liveli­
hood from the mining industry of that part
of our country, yet only a small area of
that region afforded what could be termed
rich diggings and there was never a great
stampede into this country. Quite a num­
ber of New Englanders went down there
and took part in a small way in washln~
out the gravels, but most of those who
were successful to any extent were the
native Georgians and men of North -Carolina,
and it was pretty well known that We
country afforded opportunities for only a
few men.
The gold supply of the world at that
time and for more than three centuries
previous, came from Mexico, Peru, Brazil,
and the west coast of Africa, but every year
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saw the product from the mines of the to mine for gold. At first it was thought
world growing less and less. that the area of gold-bearing gravel was
Men were not anticipating any great dis­ small, that it was confined to that one
coveries of gold anywhere when in 1848 mill stream, but within a few weeks it
the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo threw was found that every mountain stream
into the possession of the United States carried splendid pay values and that the
'a vast empire of new tcrritory, most ot red gravelly soil of the flats and slopes
{which was mountainous and not unlikely was equally rich. As the discoveries spread
to become productive in gold and silver, over greater area the wild stories of rich
yet men, until the first great discovery discoveries flew down the California coast
was made, did not seem to anticipate dis. to every little Spanish settlement and Into
coveries of the precious metal in the new Mjexico. Where San 'I<'rancisco noW stands
country. It was said by many that jf there was a little Spanish and Indian set­
gold existed in the Rocky mountains tho tlement known as Yerba Buena and adia­
trappers and traders who had covered the ccnt to that was the old Mission Dolores.
region for more than a generation would The harbor was known as San Francisco
long since have discovered it, and if gold harbor, and the river flowing into it from
existed inC'alifornia the Spanish occupants the back country was long known as me
would most certainly have known every Sacramento. The country, although owned
spot containing it. Thus no hQpe of dis­ by Spain and M,exico for almost three
covery existed, nor was there an anticl· hundred years, was still new, the valleys
pation of such discovery, when suddenly covered with wild oats, wild wheat and
across the entire civilized world flashed malver, with game in abundance; the foot­
the statement that gold had been discovcred hills and the mountains had never been
in most liberal quantities at Suttefo's Fort, much frequented by the white man; but as
a few miles south of the .sacramento river I have stated in the early part of this
in California, and it was but a few weeks article, there lay there along the west slope
later that other reports were given to the of the 8ierra Nevada mountain range, a
world of still greater discoveries being belt of territory over three hundred miles
made in the country adjacent to Sutter's long and from fifteen to sixty miles wide,
Mill. the richest gold field that the world has
Discovery of Gold in California. ever known, and it was thrown open to
mankind in the year 1849. True, gold had
As all the world now knows, the first
been discovered at several points previous
gold was found in the tail race of Sut­
to this time by the old Spanish Californians,
ter's sawmill, near what was then known
but either the irony of fate or providential
as Colonia. A Mr. James Marshall is said
arrangements prevented the world from
to have been the man who found the first
knowing of it until the discovery at Sut­
gold in the tail race one mornmg when
ter's mill.
the water had been turned off. It is now
a question as to whether or not Mr. l';[arshall Formation of the Deposits.
was really the man who found it. A Mr. The rock formation of the vast Californht
Brown and a Mr. Evans, also a Mr. Bigler, region is made up of a variety of primitive
who had come into California with the measures, granite, schist, porphyry, serpen­
Mormon battalion that had served through tine, slate, quartzite, and in places sheets
,the M'exican war' in the armies of the of Iim'ilstone. All the above measures in
United States, we're then working with California contain gold-bearing quartz veins
Marshall on the Sutter mill. The writer of save the limestone. Far back in the meas'
this article knew these three men person­ ures of timc the Sierra Nevada range of
ally and they claim that Mr. Brown and mountains did not exist; they lay far down
Mr. Bigler were the men who found the beneath a vast plain with their golden
gold but that Marshall took possession of treasures hidden thousands of feet below
it and heralded the discovery to the world. the old surface. In the fullness of time
Captain Sutter had built up quite a trade the earth's surface cracked from north to
with the. Spanish Californians, also with south and upheaving thousands of feet into
the Indians, and when the gold discovery the air, the Sierra Nevada range was born,
was made he seemed to have a presenti­ exposing along the west face the thousandS
ment that it would prove his undoing, and and thousands of gold-bearing quartz veins.
right he was, for within a few weeks white The winds and the rains and the snowS
men rushed in from every spot in Cali­ for countless years eroded and wore away
fornia where Americans, Einglish and the west slope of the great uplift. Gradually
French, or other nationalities dwelt, and the gold contained in the veins was released
paying no respect to former ownership, and carried hither and thither far down
they seized each a small area in which slopes into ancient river beds, carried and
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deposited in bars of gravel along the rIvers.
forward in the great jO,urney of two thou·
carried far out on the old flats where gla·
sand miles aeross wilderness. True, the
ciers used to move. until hundreds of feet
road up the valley of the Platte had been
in depth had been scoured away from the
mountainside and the gold from ten thou·
sand veins was thus deposited over an
area of nineteen thousand five hundred
square miles of the surface of the sub·
mountain region of California. Forests
sprang up, the most magnificent that tile
world has ever known; plant life became
luxurious; the myrtle, the laurel, the' man·
zanita, the wistaria, the wild colombine,
and the ubiquitous rose bloomed for ages
over the soils and gravels that in their
secret measures held for man's u),timate
use billions of dollars in placer goIJl that
for ages had been washed from the quartz
measures farther up the mountain.
Primitive Methods Used.
Such were the physical conditions on the
day when gold was discovered at Sutter's
mill in the year 1848. Those who were
first in the field knew scarcely anythin~
about mining, hence the methods used werEl
of the most simple and crude kind. The
nuggets first found at Sutter's mill were
in size from two to five pennyweight and
up to more than an ounce; the small par.
ticles were not observed for some time and
when they were they were not considered
worth their time in saving. Spades, shovels,
tin and iron pans, frying pans, came into
use in the first month of gathering the
gold from the gravel along the beds and
banks of streams where the bed rock was
slate. v,'here the bed rock was slate rock,
rough and jagged, the gold frequently set·
tled down into the cracks and seams, in
such cases bowie knives, butcher knives,
pieces of hoop iron or carpenter's chisels
were made use of to gouge out the golden
treasures. Men worked on their knees and
with such tools as were at their command
gouged out and washed out from the first
diggings around Colma and Auburn, and
other rich gulches of the locality from
twenty-five to one hundred dollars per day
to the man. A few weeks after the first
discovery the place was visited by one or
two men who had mined for gold in Georgia
and who knew how to construct a rocker,
This was the first skilled method and forth·
with and at once these came into favor,
although there was not more than fifty
feet of lumber required in the making of
one, along with one or two sheets of per·
forated iron plate. They first sold for one
hundred dollars each, and the saving of
gold, as well as the rapidity of working
was increased more than ten fold. The;
field of discovery widened from Colma;
men spread out mile after mile northward
a.nd sO'Qthward; Dutch Flat, Gold Run, Little
York, Shirttail 'Canyon, Iowa Hill, Michigan
Bluff, Dandy Jim, Red Dog, Little York,
Blue Tent, and scores of other fields, the
names of which are now almost forgotten,
became each a spot where hundreds of
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small fortunes were taken out during the
years 1849 and 1850.
It did not take long to carry news
of the first discovery of gold in th~
new and far-off land, around the civ·
ilized world. So that when 1849 was
ushered in, the United States, east of the
Missouri river, went wild with excitement,
the 'gold fever seized upon thousandS and
thousands from Maine to Texas and from
Fort Snelling, Minnesota, to Saint Augus·
tine, Florida; the stories that traveled on
the wind lost nothing in the telling and
the immensity and richness of the new field
was magnified a hundred fold, when told
as far away as New England, Georgia,
or in the homes of Ohio, Indiana, Missouri,
or Old Kentucky. Letters from the few
Americans in California reaching relatives
in different places told of the discovery,
and generally such letters told of the gold
being in abundance. Some letters made
mention of the delightful climate, the
,beautiful country and the short time reo
quired to gather a little fortune. We must
bear in mind that in those days a thousand
dollars was to the average American a very
large sum of money, and ten thousand dol·
lars was an enormous fortune to most men.
Therefore, the prospect or promise of going
into a country where they might and were
almost certain within a few months to make
'more than they would make at home in
torty years, spurred on thousands to make
,the attempt of reaching the New Eldorado.
Routes of Travel.
Those who started for California from
the eastern and southeastern states and
from along the lower Mississippi river and
gulf states usually chose the over-sea route,
l50ing from New York, Charleston and New
Orleans, all of those going in 1849 taking
the route around Cape Horn, the passage
costing from $1,000 to $1,500, and go·
ing from west and north of the Ohio river
almost all of them took the overland route
across the p'lains, using either mules or
QXen, the journey occupying from six to
nine months, The overland journey' was
one of extreme slowness, from ten to
fifteen miles per day was the limit of travel
for ox teams. Usually there were from
two to three yoke of oxen to each wagon.
Early in the spring of 1849 great numbers
of gold seekers started on the overland
journey from Independence, Missouri, from
St. Joe in the same state, and from Council
Bluffs, Iowa, these being then the routing
points on the borders of civilization. At
that early day the settlement between the
Missouri river and the Mississippi was very
light but sufficient to furnish supplies and
shelter to those who started during the early
winter from Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana,
and when at either St. Joe, at Independence,
or Council Bluffs, or \\Tinter lJuarten: near
Nebraska City, the long trains of ox tell,nl;;
were rested until the grass started up in
the spring of 1849, permitting them to go
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broken westward by t~aders and trapping
parties for more than a generation, extensive
wagon parties had gone over it in 1846,
American immigrants going from Indiaria,
Missouri, and Kentucky, going to Oregoh,
and the Mormons in 1847 began an emigra'
tion over 1,000 miles of the route, going
into their new country along and around
the salt and fresh water lakes of what is
now northern Utah. From Great Salt Lake
to the summit of the Sierra Nevada range
of mountains the route of travel was par·
ticularly cheerless and difficult. No wonder
that many a manly heart was tried in the
first expedition with horse teams across
'that cheerless waste of the old days, and
who were they who thus moved toward
the setting sun in vast caravans, defying
savage enemies, piercing winds, burning
heat, and chilling cold, toiling long and
wearily over the alkali deserts and up sharp
,mountain slopes and on through narrow
rocky canyons to reach the land that rumor
proclaimed the wonder of all time? And
who were they who, over tile other route
by sea, bore down far into the south through
the blue Atlantic until their staunch old
wooden vessels plunged into the antarctic
storms, rounding Cape Horn and with spars
and sheets and cordage cased In ice, shot
northward into the Pacific and sailed and
sailed until they reached the Golden Gate
and into the harbor of San Francisco a
hundred miles from the golden field of
recent discovery!.
Over both routes they were men
tne most varied of any aggregation
that ever marched forward for the
betterment of fortune in any age, the young,
the brave, the nervy, mostly those from
every walk of life but who had met diffi·
culty, and in many cases disaster in bUSI·
ness. The lawyer, doctor, merchant, gen·
eral trader, manufacturer, the college pro.
fessor, who saw only a small stipend before
through life, the blacksmith, carpenter,
butcher, baker, painter, common laborer, the
clerks and the men who toiled on the
small farm by mountain, valley and plain.
Added to these there went the gambler
and general adventurer, men who, since the
world began, have rushed forward to the
excitement of discovery or war as long as
there is prospect of plunder or easy money.
And when all these men of '49 reached
the promised land along t.he west base of
the Sierra Nevada range, what a strange
scene the field presented, There were the
northern and southern and central parts ot
the gold·bearing region and it was but
a few months until the gold country three
hundred miles in width was a scene of life
and animation, men of every walk in life
scrambling for small areas each in which
to mine for gold, and up to that day in
modern times no region ever turned out
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more favorably to the average man than course when a man worked out his own and few were foolish enough to infringe
did California in 1849, 1850, 1851 and 1852. claim he was at liberty to go and prospect on the rights of others. Civil law was
Within three years, from where Grass for new ground elsewhere, or buyout a soon established after the American plan,
Valley and Nevada City now stand, all neighbor w40 chose to sell. As in all lines yet but few applied for legal help.
the way south to the banks of Kern river, of industry and in every field there were The men of each camp were made up
; 300 miles, a belt of country from fifteen many who never made a location, never in most cases of men from many parts of
to sixty miles in width became a scene of owned a foot of ground themselves, but the world and from most states of the
§Old gathering such as mankind doubtless who from the start worked for others and union. In central California, and especially
never before saw. First with spade, shovel, these men received from six to twenty dol­ in Calaveras county, Missourians were said
sheet iron pan, wooden bowl or simple lars per day and board for their services to predominate, but by 1850 to 1851, and
sheet of iron, men worked early and late, of ten hours. The quality of board furn­ even up to 1855, every civilized country
along the mountain streams, out on the ished was as good as the .country could under the heavens sent its contingent to
flats. In some places the gold was found afford; at first bread and beef, with coffee the gold fields of California. Supplies to
going down from the surface to bedrock and sugar made up the bill of fare, but in feed the multitude growing more and
and it was worked accordingly; in others a few months Spanish beans, dried grapes, greater in demand, vessels loaded with pro­
it occurred along the margin of streams; or raisins, jerked beef and California cured visions and merchandise were sent in scores
again in streaks from ten inches to three pork came up from the old mission settle­ from the Atlantic and southern ports of
or four feet above bedrock and with an ments in central and southern California, the United States and from the port of
over burden of perhaps ten feet in thick­ at prices which were tremendously high, Santiago in Chile. Tremendous quantities
ness. Men learned wonderfully fast in flour selling for twenty-five to fifty cento of beans, dried beef tallow, flour, sugar,
those days. As before stated, for a time per pound, beans at the same price, and wine and brandy were brought to the port
it was with shovel, pan and hunting knife everything else accordingly. Those who of San Francisco and thence shipped to
or bowie knife, then came into use the opened restaurants and boarding houses the mines.
rocker and when the men of North Carolina during 1849 and in the winter of 1849 ana Beginning of California Commerce.
and Georgia appeared they at once intro. 1850 received two dollars per meal, and In the meantime the commercial life of
duced the long Tom, which was an immense if extras were furnished, as high as five California grew apace. In each camp ot
stride over the simple but efficient rocker_ dollars; a bed brought, if at all clean and the three hundred that dotted the vast gold
At first men saved only the coarse gold, decent, from two dollars to five dollars field, trading establishments grew up and
next they learned with the rocker to save per night; shovels, spades, picks and gold society organized itself more and more after
much of the fine gold_ A short time later pans as high as twenty-five dollars each; the first few months. In every little town
quicksilver was introduced into the rock .clothing for a time was equally high; rubber the trades were soon represented, with great
and the long Tom, and still more gold was boots sold for from forty to fifty dollars returns for all labor. Of course the harpies
saved and all men were growing skillful per pair; tobacco was from four to ten and vultures of society, as in every new
in the gathering of the golden grains. dollars per pound; whiskey from ten to country where great and much wealth is
The climatic. conditions . of California, twenty-five dollars per gallon; native wine in evidence, soon made appearance. So
with its wet and dry season, left the sum­ from the old missions from five to eight in the California gold field the gambler
mer of 1849 a time when those who were dollars per gallon. As might be expected, and sporting man found a paradise and great
in the field were compelled to look for there were a few men who acted as physi­ were the numbers of those who spent their
the richest spots, carry the gravel to cians and surgeons and who received good luck in that way. For the first six
where there were small streams and pour tremendous fees for service, as also lawyers months after the discovery, women, good
out the gold contained therein or spread the and men doing clerical work, such as draw­ or bad, were not there, but in time they
pan of gravel over a square of canvas 'or ing up contracts, deeds, leases, transfers, put in an appearance. The first to come
bhnket, and kneeling down, pick out slow­ etc. were those who came from the ranks ot
ly the little points, particles and nuggets As gold mining took the attention of most the fallen, from New York, New Orleans,
. that appeared to the naked eye. In many persons there were few who gave atten­ .Boston, Philadelphia, and from parts of
cases when the wind was blowing a strong tion to hunting, but the native Indians Peru,Chile, Central America and Mexico.
breeze the miner would spread his sheet brought in fish and venison, elk, sheep and The saloon, the gambling house, the dance
of canvas or blanket and holding his pan mountain grouse in abundance,' selling it house ran wide open night and day, yet
of gravel aloft would gradually let it fall, at good prices wherever offered. Men at there were thousands to whom these haunts
the wind carrying away the fine clay dust, the mines made their camps in central were no temptation They came from well
gravel and pebbles and precipitating the locations, some living in shelters made of ordered homes far away in New England
gold onto the canvas or blanket. When pine, juniper or fir -boughs cast up against and the middle states or from the mountains
winter came and the rainy season left a central ridge pole, others used a lean­ of the southwest. They came to secure
abundant water in every mountain stream to against a large rock, still others would sufficient to buy some certain farm or town
the harvest was tremendous and there were camp under trees, using canvas spreads land or cottage, to pay old debts, or 11ft
few who labored that did not obtain prince­ over their belongings when it rained, and the mortgage from the dearly loved farm
ly returns for the time put in. still others built cabins. All men were and such people were usually of strong
Necessities of Life Expensive. armed with Colt's pistols, derringers and character, sufficiently so to work hard and
Upon the discovery of gold at Sutter's bowie knives; all men were honest; gold hold all they secured.
mill, those who came together made regu­ was left exposed in almost every cabin or For a short time the medium of exchange
lations as to the amount of land each man snack, and woe betide the poor misguided was simply gold dust, sold by the pinch or
could appropriate, and as the ground was devil who attempted to steal from his weighed, but even in 1849 several assay
rich the area was small; in some localities neighbor. His reward, if caught, was be­ offices were established at San Francisco
it was only fifteen by fifteen feet, and ing stripped to the skin, tied to a wagon and the gold so assayed was in a large
in some places only one hundred square )Vheel and given from ten to fifty lashes 'part coined into round and octagonal fifty
feet, or ten feet each way. Few camps on the bare back and then ordered out dollar pieces, Many parties in San Fran­
allowed as much as 100 feet square. "With of camp, never to return. Law and order cisco coined such money. Wass MollJter
these limited areas men learned to work generally prevailed in all the camps, men and Company, Baldwin and Company, the
the ground as thoroughly as possible. Of were given to know what their rights were Ohio Trading company, the California

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assayed and refined gold and
_he same make as well as fifty
.lugs, coins of the value of two
,·half dollars, five. ten, and twenty
~ieces. which passed current until
ited ·States government erected the
)ffice and mint at :San Francisco.
;ated above, among those who shared
first discovery of gold in California
were quite a number of men in the
,y who had been soldiers in the
,on batallion. enlisted at Winter
;ers, in Nebraska Territory in the WIn·
,f 1846 for the Mex.ican war. These
marched overland to Santa Fe and
Jon and later were discharged at San
~o, and when the gold excitement was
[ on they scattered into the mines. Oil
rmon Island they took out tremendous.
mtities of gold. The immortal Sam
,mnan was at that date a sort of offi·
,1 guardian for the Church interests
.long the Mormons along the sea coast­
;om the faithful he collected a large tith­
.g. which for a short time he sent to the
hurch authorities at Salt Lake City. This,
.long with other sums of gold, was coined
lY Brigham Young at Salt Lake City. He
had it made into pieces of two and one·
half dollars, five, ten and twenty dollar
pieces They were coined in 1849 and also
in 1850 and some of better make in 1860.
The Utah coins were minted from unre·
fined gold for these first two years as
there was no assay or refining plant in
Utah and as seldom were there two
mining camps in California in which the
gold was of the same value. so these Utah
coins were of the same weight but differed
in standard valuation_ There was also made
in Oregon a five dollar piece known as
beaver money. also a ten dollar piece, by
the Oregon Trading company. a party or
Oregonians who went down into the Cali·
fornia gold fields and, returning with large
quantities of treasure. coined it for the
greater convenience of trade. The coins
of all these mintings, whether of California,
Oregon or Utah. in a few years passed out
of circulation, and where any of them are
now found they command a high premium as
numismatic treasures.
California as a region of gold discovery
proved a tremendous success. It increased
the volume of gold throughout the entire
civilized world. and since the days when
Pizarro and his rough riders conquered the
.peruvian empire and gathered gold by the
ton froro a hundred Peruvian temples,
palaces and time honored tombs of the
:old kings, no such treasures were ever gath.
ered by men as the first arrivals from
over plains and over seas gathered from the
mighty gold areas of California. What suc·
cess, what thrills of Victory gladdened men's
hearts as they took, from the gravel and
red' soil of the footbills. from twenty·five
'-~'" tlollars per day, with the
most simple and primitive methods. No
wonder all strong and nervy men who heard
the story in the Mississippi valley. or by
the Ohio or the eastern seashore. resolved
on leaving all behind and going afar into
that Eldorado where poverty was unknown.
and where hope and realization was the
rule and great fortune the reward.
The Eldorado a Paradise.
In no part of the world was the discovery
of golden fortune found in a more delight­
ful region. The west slope of the Sierra
Nevadas was a paradise in those days, the
high crests were clothed with snow; lower
down. majestic forests of pine. fir, balsam,
cedar. and juniper spread over the land;
still farther down grassy valleys lay in per·
petual spring, and to all men who came
th is gold·sown field was theirs for the
taking. The way into that golden land,
no matter whether by land or sea, was
forbidden and bitter; by sea, long, torrid,
frigid. tempestous and clothed with drear
monotony; by land, long, rocky, dreary, and
a thousand times more bitter than the trail
the Children of Israel trod in the wilderness
of old, but the golden region once gained
under the opal skies of California the aver·
age man was a hundred·fold rewarded.
Where in 1848 and the early days 01
1849 there was nothing but the rough but
inviting face of nature, how quickly thrifty
towns sprang up and three hundred camps
are said to have in time appeared, the
queens among which were Grass Valley,
Nevada City, Dutch Flat, Auburn, Coloma,
Forest Hill, Michigan Bluff, Iowa Hill,
'Georgetown. Amador, Jackson, Placerville
or Hangtown. Jimtown, Volcano. Chinese
Camp, Angels Camp. MQkalumne Hill,
Sonora. Columbia, San Andreas. lone, Villa·
c'ta, Murphy's Gamp, Esmeralda, Carson
Hill, Sutterville, Big Oak Flat, Hornitos.
,Diamond Springs, Eldorado. Indian Diggings.
Mud Springs, :Mlariposa, and on southward,
until from the highland at Fort Tejon one
could look afar to the southward and out
on to the grey wastes of the Mojave
Desert. On either bank of the rivers of
California, flowing from out of the SIerra
Nevadas to the ocean, work of mining was
profitably pursued.-on the Sacramento,
American, Stanislaus, Cosumnes, 1\1erced.
Tuolumne, Kings river, and more than two
hundred small tributaries of these mountain
rivers,-and there was placer gold every·
where along the banks of each stream. or
course the richness of these bars and river
flats varied. but they were all rich enough
to give excellent returns for the lab()r given
to them.. From 1848 to 1855 what a won­
derful history making. fortune making six
years they were. Summing up the assets of
the fortunate and wise·headed who reached
:California from 1849 to 1855. about sixty·
five per cent returned· to their old homes,
with from fifteen hundred to five thousand
dollars, over and above the cost of going
and coming. About ten per cent returned
with net profits UL . . __
sand dollars; ten per cent with fl
to twenty thousand dollars; nine I
with from twenty to twenty·five t
dollars; five per cent with from tW!
to fifty thousand dollars. and one I
with from fifty to one hundred t
dollars, and each had the experi
fortune in itself. The treasures, la
small, taken from california in tho
laid the foundation of some of the
greatest fortunes. and the gold
broadcast stimulated trade in all
the world.
A Romantic Period.
The most romantic and we may
most heroic days of California histe
those in which placer mining in its
form was carried on in the Califor
fields from 1849 to 18';5. It was dUl
period that cholera and Indian warfl
at their worst on the plains and
during that time that the wood
ships took the pioneers around Cal
It was during that time that strem
was seen and wherein the easy mo
made. It is true that for long aft~
fortunes were taken from the ea
much of the field gave up its gold al
sought for new fields in Australia,
or elsewhere. A few, despairing ,
discoveries being made under their c
joined Crabbe in his war of advent
lower California or went with the
reckless men who joined Walker to
Nicaragua In 1855. They saw tho
ning of the end of one of the
gold·gathering epochs of all time.
The Inhabifants Law Abidin
It has been supposed by some t'
old early days in California werf
lawlessness and wickedness. By
was this the case. Many reckless
were, but compared to the bulk 0'
numbers present, the real bad
few. Thousands of men served th,
ular life in the California gold
they observed in their old homes
MissiSSippI. By such the S:
observed, the scriptures werE
more attention given to relig'
ists now among the same nUl
pIe in the heart of our grea
men were armed, the Kentl
double barreled shot gun 'i
cabin or in every shack, n
them the old large sized C
baJJ revolvers, some had hor
many kept near them each
smooth bore holster pistols, .
wire twist barrels. These
Belgium and sold in San Fr
knives of good make and 101
knives made from files ...
others. Men dressed plainl
white or black hats, rec
woolen shirts. dark trous
which were thrust into
Such was the plain dress
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and if the character of the rock causes the
footage to vary it varies the price per foot.
For example; 60 feet at a cost of $1,800
means $30 per foot, while 90 feet at the
same cost would mean $20 per foot, while
surface improvements, insurance, legal and
title etc., would not be computed in the
"footage average,"
T.hese averages are not apl'licable to
lateral work such as drifting and crosscut­
ting, nor to stoping.
We will begin -crosscutting by the end of
January. It will take practically all of F€b­
ruary to cut the station and sump below the
station to catch dripping water and get back
ten or tWenty feet away from the shaft.
From Maroh 1st we expect to make 200 feet
of crosscut a month. As soon as a vein is
cut we will start a crew of men drifting
both ways on the vein, and they will make
about the same footage in each direction.
This will reduce the overhead expense, as
the sam€ engineers and mechanks handle
the top work without increased expense
there, and greater footage is made.
The efficiency of mine work consists of
making the greatest footage or tonnage with
the least "overhead expense." This can best
be done with good tooh; and machinery (such
as we have) that makes the brutal heavy
labor of hand work obsolete and makes work
easier. Then, by hiring good intelligent
men to direct the work of the machine
tools at better wages than before more
progress is made, and tilOugh the labor costs
mor~, the price per foot is reduced, and the
overhead costs are lowered.
Stockholders and the company look to
hut one man~th-e man in -charge-for re­
sults, and he hires his "assistants" or
"slaves" as heehooses. My workmen are
not "slaves" but are .my "assistants;' who
are trying to help me deliver the goods.
Success is no trifle, but trifles make suc­
cess. Of course the big things at a mine
must be right, but it i" getting the multitude
of little things right about a mine that makes
it successful.
That is the reason we report the little
things as well as the big ones, that stock­
holders may judge whether their manager
and his assistants <ire efficient in their
work, and also to show what mining costs,
and what the money goes for.
~~~--o----
Stockholders of the Palisade Mining and
Smelting company, owning sixteen claims
and a compressor plant in the Pine· Creek
district of the Idaho Coeur d' Alenes, electej
these directors at the annual meeting in
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: J. W. 'Schmidt of Cat­
aldo, Idaho, president: Dr. E. von Gundlach,
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, vice president, and
A. KRogers of Spokane, 'Washington, sec­
retary-treasurer. The officers and J. A.
Bigbee compose the board of directors of
the company.
b, -ne--. , ;
MIN I N G REV lEW, FEB R U A R Y
II UNITED VERDE MINE AND
The News of Jerome, Arizona, thus de­
scribe,s the new smelting plant now being
constructed by ex-Senator W. A. ClarK fo:'
the o,res of the United Verde mine:
In the Verde vaHey, at Clarkdale, ap­
proximately six miles from the present
site, and connected with the mine at the
100-foot tunnel level 'by the Verde Tunnel
and Smelter railroad, a new smeltery of
approximately 3,000 tons daily capacity is
in course ·of erection. It is the intention
to make the new smeltery tha'roughly mod­
ern in every detail. In general the €quip­
ment will consist of:
Four 48x26 foot blast furnaces ..
Three 19x100 foot reverberatory fur­
naces.
Five 12,foot converters_
Large receiving and ·storage bins for
ore and coke,
Sampling mill, ·thoflOughly equip·ped with
the latest machinery for this class of work.
Dust chambers, stacJi;s and ore hand­
ling system, etc., designed according to the
latest engineering practioo.
The shop.s will be equipped with mod­
ern machinery. The warehouse and main
hulldings will be of st€el designed with a
libera,l allowance of operating space. Ap­
proximately 10,000,000 'brick and 8000 tons
of steel will be used in the construction of
this plant. A modern brick plant to make
the brick ·is in COUfise of construction. The
material will be handled in and around
the plant by a modern industrial system,
including the latest design of electric loco­
motives, conveyors, tmms, etc-.
The townsite of Clarkdale will be con­
tJrolledby the company. H has been laid
out on strictly modern and sanita,ry lines.
The buildings have been carefully designed
with due regard to clillllatic conditions, etc.
The fire and water supply system has re­
ceived careful attention. A 40,000 volt
transmission line, 00nnected with 'the Ari­
zona Power eomuany'·s mains supplies the
necessary power for construction require­
ments.
The bulk of the J,)owe.t for operating
the smeltery will be supplied from waste
heat ,boilers, connected with the reverbera­
tory fur!laces. The main power plant will
be equipped with:
One Southwick compound blowing en­
gine.
One Rateau-Smaotsteam turbo-blower.
One Diesel double-unit six-cylinder oil
€ngine, driving throug.h rope transmission.
One No. 11 Root blower, 300 cubk feet
per revolution.
One No_ 11 Root blower, 300 cubic feet
per revolution, motor driven.
One No. 11 Root blower 400 cubic feet
per revolution, motor driven.
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WORKS I
One 300 cubic foot blower, driven by one
reciprocating engine.
One WestinghOUse Parsons steam tm·
bine generating unit, 500 kva.
One 1500 kva unit.
Two IVeise condensors, capac:ty each,
41,000 pounds steam per hour, with auxili­
ary apparatus.
The new smeltery and townsite are con­
nected with the standard gauge V€rde Val.
ley milway, running up the Verde Valley
a distance of 40 miles and connecting with
the Santa .Fe, Prescott and Phoenix rail­
road at Cedar Glade. This gives the new
townsHe and smeltery a decided advantage
in transportation facilitie·s over the 0111
smelterry and Jerome narrow gauge con­
nection.
It ·has been estim2ted that it will take
approximately two years to complete the
new plant.
The United Verde Copper company ilas
paid more than $32,000,000 dHring twenty­
ei.gh t years.
The main offices of the company are lo­
cated at 20 Exchange place, New York, with
the following officers:
William A. Clark, president; .James A.
MacDonald, vice-president; Charles IV.
Clark, general manager, and Will L. Clark,
manager of all comp:my interests in Ari­
zona.
The mine and worl,s, where 1,000 men
are employed, are lo-cated at Jerome, with
the fol:owing superi:ltendents of depart­
ments:
Robert E. Tally, sUjJerlntendent of mine
department; Thomas Taylor, superintendent
of smertery dep·artment. and T. C. Roberts,
chief engineer and superintendpnt of me'
chanical department.
The United Verde mine is located on the
hillside, about l'_ quarter of a mile above the
town of Jerome. It is at the terminal of the
United Verde & Pacific railway, and in fart
mallY of its underground workings are un­
dernea.th the railroa<l yards and the smelt­
ery.
Tbe mine is worked from vertical shafts,
of which there are four. ranging in depth
from :300 to 1,500 feet. IVhere the ore comes
to the surface it is worked from open cuts_
There are also adits which conne·ct with the
main workings on the 300, 500 and 1.000
levels, There are copper precipitatln.g
flumes outside on these levels.
The 1,000 tunnel, which is 6,543 feet long,
seven and one·half feet high and eight feet
wide. is now used for drainage and ventila­
tion. It was driven fo], this purpose as weil
as for a main haulage',Yay for the ores for
t'he new smeltery.
The ore occurs principally as chalcopy­

THE SAL T LA K E
rite in pyrite and in schist and quartz por­
p'hyry gangue. Various degrees of oxida­
tion QCcur near the surface. The ore bodies
are in the form 'of lenticular lenses of vari·
ous sizes and values. They are worked by
the bottom slicing method, without timbers,
and by the square set method, and all stope.s
are filled to within seven feet of the roof,
There are about fifteen miles of work­
ings open' at the present time. There are
about 550 men ,employed, and the tonnage
is about 1,000 tons per day.
The smeltery building is 80 feet by 400
feet, and contains one blast furnace .58x180,
with :!iourteen·foot settler, and three blast
furnaces 48x240, with sixteen-foot settl,ers;
all fitted with hot blast pipes. In the 'pon­
verter line there are four stands 93x138,
barrel type sheHs, electrically operated,
There is also, one Knudsen furnace.
In this building there are also two 40·
ton electric traveling cranes, and two 50·
ton electric traveling cranes, that traverse
the full length of the building, and are used
for handling the converters, matte and slag
ladlies.
This smeltery turned out about·33,500,000
pounds of copper in 1912.
A large portion of the power is purchased
from the Arizona Power com]}any, and
transmitted a distance of thirty-eight miles,
under a pressure of 40,000 volts, 3 phase, 60
cycle, stepped down and converted In the
PQw'er company's sub-station, and delivered
on the copper company's switchboard at
2,300 volts A. C., and 250 volts, D. C.
The water supply is piped from various
springs south of Jerome, the farthest being
some sixteen miles, which flows by .gravity
and is distri'buted along the various tanks
aboUJt the plant, ag>gregating a storage capa­
'City of 435,000 gallons.
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ASSESSMENTS ON UTAH MINES.
Tintic Central Mining company. operat­
ing In the Tintic district,has levied an
assessl!lent of Gne-half cent a share on its
steck, w,hich is delinquent March 11, with
sales day, March 29.
The Spring Lake Mining company, with
properties in the Santaquin district, has
levIed an assessment of one dollar per
thousand s'hares which was delinquent Feb­
ruary 24, and will be sold March 15.
The Roy Mining & Milling company, of
the Deep Creek section, will sell sharehoId­
eJ's stock, on March 8, which was delin·
,~ent February 20, the amount Qf the as­
"s(}sS'IDent 'being on&1haif cent a share.
o tains two miles hack from the coast, the
R. R. Robinson, of San Francisco, has
bonded the Atlanta, January, Midway ana
Progressive claims at Masonic, CalifornIa,
in which John Hayes owns a large interest,
tll(;l price named being $22,500. Arrange­
ments are ·being made to start development
work at once.
• r mar: t" r Mn mr
MIN I N G ,R E V JEW, FEB R U A R Y
ALASKA GOLD MINES COMPANY.
Possibilities of Large Low Grade. Gold
Proposition Analyzed.
George L. Walker, in the Boston Corn·
mercial, has wr~tten anal"ticle on the Alaska
Geld Mines company, in whi'ch there is con·
siderable local interest. He sayS:
"T,hose traders and :investors in mining
shares who habitually look with suspicion
ulYon gold stocks, have been greatly sur­
prised :by the rapidity with which Alaska
Gold Mines shares ,have advanced since they
were placed on the market a few months
ago.
"There has been a ,dispostiion in some
quarters to doubt the estimate of the com·
pany's engineers that .gold ore carrying a~
a'Jerage of only about $1.80 in total values'
v~ which ,1.50 is recover,able, can be made
to yield a net pt'ofit of 75 cents a ton.
",\Vihai' are currently referred to as the
engineers' estimates, however, are in real­
ity, based upon the results of operations
cor;,ducted 'by the present management be­
(.re .the property was taken over and the
AlaSka Gold Mines company organized.
"At the time the option was secured the
pmperty was equipped with a mill of 500
tons dailY <capacity. Under the direction of
:!), C. Jackling, 74,000 tons of ore was mined
and treated in this mill 'and the total oper­
ating expenses, during the ,period 'of about
1(.0 days in whi.oh this ore was being mined
and milled, averaged 81 c-ents per ton
treated. Included in these costs were
traveling expenses, experimental work, ship­
mEnt and sale of product and all other ex­
p"ndltures of every eharacter.
"The mining cost averaged about 17%
C{'''Ilts a ton. and because of lack of under­
gmund equipment, which will be ,provided
later, tramming cost 18 cents a ton. ,\Vith
eiectrichaulage this latter item can prob­
aLly be cut in halves.
"Other items of cost carried durIng this
,period of experimental operation will be sus­
ceptible of so great a relative reduction
when conducting operations on a very large
scale that it is thought quite probable thrut
total costs may be as low as 65 cents or
even 60 cents a ton.
"Operating conditions at the property are
ideal in every respect. On the coast, where
the miII is located, climatic conditions in
winter are even more mild than they are in
Massachusetts; but 1,500 to 3,500 feet higher
where the vein outcrops along the moun­
w:nters, of course, are extremely cold.
"The plan of operations, however, elimi·
nates all work in the high altitudes. The
ore will 'be mined through long tunnels
which go in from just Ij,bove, the coast level
<J,lld shafts to the surface will serve only
fo:' purposes of YentiJation.
n r "!I'rl'·
"
5
I
28, 1913.
"When the property ,was taken over it
was estimated that it contained 50,000,000
tens of workable ore. More recent develop­
ments make it reasonably certain that the
bIg vein, averaging 70 feet in width, ex­
tends for a distance of almost three miles
tllrough the property and rise,s to an aver­
age height of 2,000 foot above sea level.
"A body (l'f ore 15,000 feet long, 70 feet
wide and 2,000 feet deep would contain ap­
pl'oximately 175,000000 tons. As it is quite
probable,however, that this deposit can be
'mined to a still greater depth of 2,000 to
3,000 .feet ibelow water level, the :possibili­
t,es of tonnage run into figures whIch It Is
di!,ficult for the average mind to compre­
hBnd. .
"The vein dips at an angle of ,about 70
degrees away from the ocean. The mine Is
I
an unusually dry one. The gold oocurs in
a vein or fracture zone in the slate, where
a comes in contact with gabbrQ, the latter
forming the footwall. The vein itself con­
sists of slate w.hich at some time has ,been
profoundly ahattered and the fracture planes
filled with innU'merable small veinlets of'
c-,uartz.
"Mining practic.e wil1 consists of rais­
ir.g shafts (lr chutes in the footwall from
the tunnel levels. Crosoouts will be driven
through the vein at intervals of 200 feet
from the surface down and the ore will be
drilled and shot down in immense 'masses.
As it falls and finds its way into branch
raises from the main chutes it :breaks up
into small pieces convenient to 'handle in
ordinary mining cars.
"Two men with on<J drill will stope from
7:; to 110 tons (If ore in the Alaska mine
in a single day's work. No timbering is
rE'quired. The walls 'are very firm and the
Ofe breaks dean from them.
"Of course as mining progresses to great
depth the hanging wall will break away and
ftil up the wide opening left; but such
small portions of it as deave off and mix
with the ore will carry about $1 per ton
in gold and, there:!iore, will not tend greatly
to reduce or dilute the average grade.
"It has been stated that Alaska Tread­
"',;,U's ope'ra;ting <costs are around $2 to
$2.50 a ton of ore handled. According to
the company's annual .report for the year
Hill, its costs were a fraction less than
$1.40 a t~n.
"lJ'he Treadwell is now mining below
sea level and hoisting its ore. Its mine is
so near the sea level that great care has
to ,be taken to prevent caving, which might
permit the waters of the ocean to enter
the workings. ,safety is provided for iby
leaving immense pillars of ore at regular
intervals, a practice which very greatly in·
creases the 'cost of mining.
"The Alaska Treadwell is demonstrating
that Its ore can be milled for about 18%
cents a ton, whereas the estimates of the
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21
Alaska mines engineers allow for a cost of
al'out 20 cents.
"The ore is free milling. aoout 65'};, of
the values being recovered by amalgama­
Directory of Engineers.
tlon. The remainder of the values secur€ d
are in -concentrates vlhich will either be
Arnold, I!'!sher & Calvert ,.,." .... , .. .
Balliet. Letson ... , ... , ............ , .... . 36
tr€ a ted at the properly or shivped to custom
Brooks t ehas. P ................ , ... , .. ,. 36
Brown, G. Chester .................... . 3G
smelters.
"All of the company's overations will be
Connor. P. E. . ... , ....... ,., ......... . 3~
cr,nducted with .hydro-electric power gener­
Craig, \'iF J, .,' ............... , ...... , .. 36
Dunyon, N. A. ., ...................... , 3H
ated on streams near ~he vroperty and the
Io'iske, \Vinthrop W. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " . , 3 1j
cost of this power will ·be extremely low.
General Engineering Co. . . . . , .. ' .. , .... 3€-
Hale, Fred A., Jr. . " . , ... , .. , ..
The heavy rain and snow fall in Alaska
Howard, L. O. . . , . " . , .. " ............ , 36
and the melting of snow and ice in summer
Jennings, E, p. . ............... ,., .... .
can be depended upon to provide an abund­
Johnson, Jay Eliot .,., ......... , ...... . ?G
ant and continuous flow of water for power
Lee. "Murray ............. , ... " ....... . 36
Leggat, J. Benton
purvoses.
~[agujre. Don ........ , ..
"The first plan of the management, which
Overstrom, G. A . . . . . " ..... , ..... " . , .
Pack, Mosher F, ......... '........... .
is now ooing carried out, was to open the
ploperty by a big extraction tunnel called
theShe€ p Creek, build a mill of 6,000 tons
du.ily clI!\)jacity and make the necessary
dams and electric plants to supply the
power required for this volU'me of OI}era­
tions.
"The Sheep Creek tunnel has been driven
Wilson & Ott .......... , .... ,.,
at the rate of 500 feet a month and is now
Zalinski, Edward R . . . ' ... '
k the ore. The mill should be completed
by July of next year.
"R€ c ent developments in the company's
own I}mperty and the determination by
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owners of adjoining -claims that the vein
Hotel Stanford ....... , ............... .
carries good values to depth of 1,000 feet
below the Alaska Gold Mjines company's
workin·gs have Jed the management to take
Ul'der consideration the advisability of in­
CI easing the plant to 20,000 tons' dailY capac­
ity.
"Of course this extension will not be
35
mrt<1e until after the 6,000 ton installation
is completed and in successful operation;
Lut there is no reason to doubt that there
is ore enough in the properly to peI'lnit the
treatment of 20,000 tons daily or 7,000,000
tons annually for· a period of 25 to 40 years.
"When the plant is increased to 20000
tl:.at net earnings will amount to $5.80 per
tuns daily capacity the money to pay for
i\ undouhtedly will be raised by the sale of
a further issue, of st;)ck. The company at
pr-esent has 698,128 shares outstanding and
a total of 750,000 shares authorized. This
stock was issued at $10 a share, $5 being
p>lid at the time and $5 per share more
IJeing payable July 1. 1913.
"The flotation and the coming :Payment
of $5 a share will provide the company
with .$4,500,000, which is eXI}ected to be
sllfficient to do preliminary development
wcrk. build the Jams, electric power p~ants
and the mill, which will enahle the com·
p~ny to treat 6,000 tons of ore daily and
e[\rn $1,500,000 annually or $2 a share on
the stock now authorized.
"Considered as a 20,000-ton daily capac­
ity propOSition the remarkable possibilities
of the Alaska Gold Mines company at once
b('come apparent. A profit of 75 cents a
ton on this amount of ore would yield net
MIN I N G REV lEW, FEB R U A R Y
INDEX "'ro ADVERTISERS
Mlnln~ MachInery and Supplle".
. Pllge
Allis-Cha!mers Co. . . . _................. 8 Orem & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,., .. , .... , .. 38
Central Coal & Coke Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,. 40
Denver Fire Clay Co__ ........... ,..... 4
Diamond Drilling Co. _................. 38
Fulton Engine 'Works ....... " .... , .. ,. 38
Hendrie, The \'1. C,' Rubber Co. . , ...... " 35
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. . . '........... 5
Jones & Jacobs, Mill Builders .......... 4
Lane Mill & Machinery Co. .............. 4
Landes & Co., Trucks " ... " ..... ".,.. 7
Luitwieler Pumping Engine Co, ..... .. 38
Mine & Smelter Supply Co. . . , ... , ..... ,' 1
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co..... ,.. 43
Moyle. E. H .• Engg. & Equipment Co.,.. 7
Okell Drill & Supply Co. .., ........ ,., 38
Porter, Charles 1<'., Building Material. .. , 6
36
Revere Rubber Co............... , . , .. ' .. 43
Richmond, F. C., Machinery Co. . , ..... .
Roessler & Hass··acher Chemical Co.,... 35
36
Salt Lake Hardware Co, .. ,....... 44
Silver Bros. Iron ·Works ..... ,' .... ,.... :l
Utah i"ire Clay Co. ..,., ..... ,......... 3~
Utah Fuel Co. . . , ... ,., .............. ,.. 41
, .. , , .... " .. . 36
Way's Pocket Smelter Co, , .. , .... , .. ,.. 35
36
\Vestern Heating & Sheet Met,,) Co" ,. , . . 6
36
Z. C. ;-'L 1. .... , ..... , .......... ,... 41
Banking HOll"e...
McCQrnick & Co. , ......... , ........ '... 35
Merchants' Bank , ........ , .... '.'..... 35
Salt Lake Security Co. . . . . . . , .. ,...... 35
Utah Savings & Trust Co. . . , ....... ,... 35
Utah State National Bank .... ,......... 35
Walker Bros. .' .............. ,.,....... 35
Assnyers and Chelnlrds.
A. F. Bardwell .. , .... ,. ,..... 37
37
Bird-Cowan ." ... , ..... ,... ..... 37
37
Crismon & Nichols .. , ..... , .. ,., ...... ' 37
37
Currie, J. W. . .... ,., ..... , .. , .... ,..... 37
Officer & Co., R. R. . _ ., ... _. .. . .. .. . 37
Union Assay Office......... 37
RaIlroad...
Bingham & Garfield Ry. ..,......... 41
Oregon Short Line .......... ' ... ,.,. 39
Salt Lake Route ., .......... ,..... 41
35
M{nln~ Attorney,,_
Booth, Lee, Badger & Rich ., .. ".,. 38
Eradley, Pischel & Harkness ., ... ,.' 38
Callahan, D. A" Mining Law Books 3R
Davis & Davis .................... 315
Dunn. Edward D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '.' ... ' 38
Higgins, E. V . . . . " ........ , ......... ,.. 38
Hutchinson, Wl. R. '................... ,.. a~
Pierce. Critchlow & R<trrette ...... ,., .. , 38
Powers, Mar'oneaux. Stott & McKinney,. 3·5
Sanford, Allen 1', ., ........ , ... ,... 3~
earnings of $5,250 000 annually. Assume
that the company's -capital stock will be
increased to 900,000 shares to finance the
eXitension of milling ca~acity and it appears
sla.ted that a deeper tunnel wili be run
share annually.
"Applying th~ prinCiple of amortization,
it is figured that an income of $5.80 annu­
ally fOr 25 yeal's, amortized at 5%, has a
present va'ue of $78. Amortized at 6% it
would have a present v,alue of $69. If the
80 cents is eliminated for miscalculations,
an income of $5 a :;hare annually for 25
years would give the stock present value
(;f $59.50 a sha'-e.
"There is every reason to expect that
Alaska will make on.. of the largest and
longest Jived go'd 'mines in the world. It
VJilI be an immense manufacturing enter­
pr!se that can he depended upon for reg­
ular dividends for 35 to 50 years,"
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George T. Stenhouse, general manager,
al,d George Z, Edwards, of Salt I"ake,have
gnne to the property of the Hope Mines
Development company in Madera county,
C::.lifornia, In which M,r. Edwards has taken
28, 1 9 1 3.
Mine and Stock Denle....,
Page
Ad"mson, W. G . . , ...... ,., ........... '.
Burch, Caetan! & Hershey, ... , .. " .... . 31;
Burket Janles J. . .................. , .. . 21)
Ireland, T. W . . . . . , ' . ' , . " . , .. , .. ,., ... . 36
Knowlton, A, D, ., ............... ' ..... . 36
MeCa.keB, J. R ............ , ........ , , ' •. _ 36
36
Peet, C, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , .. ,'., ..... ,.'., 37
Pulsifer, H. B. .. , .......... . 37
Safford, J. L . . , .... ', .. , ......... . 37
Sherrill, 8. C. . ............ , ....... '., .. 37
Si lver Bros., Engineers & Can tractors ... 37
Troxell, L. E. .., .. , ...... , .......... , .. 37
Utah State School of ;\Iines .......... ,,' 37
Va tinke, Paul ... , .. , .. , .. " ... . 37
Viiladsen Bros. . . , ....... , ...... ,., ... ,. 37
~~:~ee/a-tret.w.. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
37
·Widdicombe & Palmer .... , .. , ..... 37
IUI"cellaneou".
Century Printing Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
De Bouzek Engraving Co. . . , ....... , .. , 38
Dinwoodey Furniture Co, .. , ... " . , ... . f)
Gardner & Adams ." ... , ... , ... ,., .... .
Harris, H. H., Accountant .. , .. , ... ,. 38
International Smelting & R..~fining Co.. ,. S
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co, ........ . r,
Nephi Plaster Co . . . . . . . . , .. , .. , ... ,., .. 38
New Era Motor Co. . ......•..... , ... , .. 4
Official Directory of Mines ..... . 40
Railroad Time Tables .......... , ...... . ;{9
Roberts, J. C,' Dealer in Rare :Vietals .,., 6
Salt Lake Photo Supply Co. . . . . . . ,., .. , 3S
Salt Lake Stamp Co. . .......... ' .... ,. 38
Shiplers, Commerc'al Photographers ... .
38
Utah Ore Sampling Co, ........ ,., .... . ~
,\Vestern Vanadium Co................ , .. 6
Whitaker, Geo. A., Cigars ............. .
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a large interest. The mine is in the }lother
Lode region and is said to have produced
considerable ore in the past In outlining
the plans for future work Mr. Stenhouse
billow the 250-foot level, where the deep­
e~t workings now are. Fuel and water is
cl:cap and plentiful.
RECEIVERS APPOINTED FOR UNITED
COPPER.
John S. Sheppard, of New York, and
Ac!dison F. Cudworth, of Vermont, have been
appointed receivers for the United Copper
company, of willeh F. Augustus Heinze is
pJ"{,sident, and which owns properties in
:\10ntana, Utah and British Columbia. The
~()mpany has been involved in litigation
since 1907, and Hs debts are said to amount
to $4,500,000, although it is believed the
assets are greater than the liabilities, but
al (' not at present available. The company
i., capitalized at $80,000,000, of which $50,­
0(\0,000 is issue<l. The company joined in
the application for receivers.
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th8 smoke cloud Which hangs over Salt
Leroy A. Palmer. :Maynard Bixby.
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Lr.ke City, in the winter, is due to the
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. - Hamman's
Advertising Agency, South Pasadena., Cal.
• an consumed in great quantities in the city,
Reminiscences of tlleold day·s of mining
are always interesting. The DayS of '49
in California, as told 'by J)Qn Maguire, in
this issue of the Mining Review, is no ex·
ception to this rule. We feel especially
fortunate in obtaining this little master·
piece.
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That the simplest process of treatment
lS many times the most renumerative, is
well brought out in the mill practice at the
Lucy Gray, in Nevada, where the use of
straight percolation on .ore as coarse as one
inch has solved a problem that more exten·
s'\'e proceSses ouly complicated the more,
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We look to see the flotation process make
mark in the metallurgy of Butte's zinc
Kes. It has long been a source of wonder
:0 many, that, with the great development
,- the flotation jlrocesses on foreign mines
hat there was 110 large plant in this coun·
rY depend.ing 011 the process fOr the con·
:fntration of its sulp,hide ores.
In the old days forty-nine in CaJifor·
la, the miner was accustomed to leave his
.!'cumulation of gold lying about his cabin
nguarded, but it would appear from press
i.spatches that near the southern Califor·
ia line in these enlightened days, it is
ecessary for the miner to have a guardian
lr his copper tl'anSimisgion lines.
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'Only four days remain in which mining
.terests will be in ignorance of what to
?t
It
MIN I N G REV lEW. FEB R U A R Y
expect from the change in the government.
There will be grave (!ause of dissatisfaction
if a western man is not appointed secretary
of the interior department. Eastern direc·
tion has proved a fdlure, and the west
j"'etly asks for the appointment of one
fBmiliar with western problems.
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The Rand of South Africa has long been
puinted out as .a shining example of the
mining and treatment of gold ore ({n a large
the large plants can be consumed by proper
firing, but the residence smoke is another
ma.tter, which, !Vs said 'before, can not be
cured while soft coal is burned. Coke fs
not an entirely satisfactory fuel. Gas would
the credit for the e-reatest copper indus·
tn'
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THE SMOKE NUISANCE.
Since the suggestion has been made that
MORE ON MINE REPORTS,
one for the consideration. of mining men.
While it Is possible that, occasionally, some
of the smoke from .the valley plants reaches
the city, there are other conditions which
remst ,be remedied before the city will be
pl,"asant in winter. The smeltery smoke is
a very small factor in the trouble.
As long as the smoky grades of soft coal
tht' smoke will be with us. There are two
main sources of this smoke, the first, the
large heating and power plants, such as
bilsiness plants, office 'building plants, apart­
mc,nts, hotels, etc., and the second, and hy
ftlr the most important source, the small
h<,a.iing plants of our residences. The first
source is readily controJled and is not, at
U~(· present time, a producer of more than
a small part of the clOUd.
Early in the morning the sky is fairly
dear. An observer in ·the ,higher parts
of the dty will note the thousands of col·
UJllllS of black smoke which arise from the
breakfast fires. They appear as threadS,
but soon the various threads are 'seen to
coalesce, until the lower p·art of the city is
entirely obscured. One has only to watch
tlle fOI'mation of thecjoud a few times ·be·
fore he is satisfied that the prime cause of
the cloud is the residence smoke, for which
the remedy is difficult, and tilat the smeltery
has llracticalJy nothing to do with it. For,
before, the cloud has formed, the smoke
can be plainly seen coming from the Murray
sluek, and blowing, not towards the city,
but towards the ,hills to the west. A south
wlnd is rare. The prevailing wind carries
the smeltery smoke tv one side of the city
in the morning and entirely away from it in
the afternoon, when the north west wind
rises.
The cause of the smoke itself is per.
fectly definite; and a little further consider·
ann ]$ , t " •.
28; 1 9 1 3.
ation shows why it remains during the
gl€ a ter part of the ·morning. The city lielt
in a natural pocket, or eddy, in which, in
t;j(~ winter, there is Gnly occasionally any
air stirring. The d:md, once formed, re·
ma.ins. But each afternoon, a wind springs
up from the open space to the northwest,
al~d, immediately thereafter,a greater pOr­
tion of the city, with the possible exception
of the northeast corner, is cleared.
The remedy for this condition is dif­
ficult. The small amount of smoke from
replace a few of the ranges now used, for
cooking, but for heating, control or block
heating plants, which would distribute heat
to the residence section, as is done success·
fully in certain eastern cities, would appear
to 'be the only solution.
Lack of detail in reports to stockholders
is one of the great causes of dissatisfaction
of investors with mining securities. Elimi­
nating for, the l'urposes of this discussion,
the operations of the largest companies,
whose a-ccounting methods are necessarily
\mricate, and where it is doubtless impos·
siLle to furnish all details, and confining
attention to the smaller operations, in which,
III the end, more of the public are directly
interested, surely there is little excuse for
1,0( giving, in frequent reports, the details
of alJ the minor work, in ·simple terms, sa
that any of the stockholderli\ may be in a
position to judge of the efficiency of the
m.anagement, and see clearly what his in·
vf:stment is being used for.
The operations are seldom so compre­
her:sive that details cannot ,be supplied. In
at'dition to saying that so many feet of
dmelopment was done, the exact nature of
the work, with detail costs, can be given,
with real explanations for iiifl'eren-ces from
similar work in the past.
The average stockholder is fulJy able to
aigest such reports, and will stay with an
<,therwise discouraging proposition much
longer, when he is taken more into con­
sideration in this respect. He can form a
Fetty accurate opinion of the possibilities
for his investment.
Unfortunately small companies in many
cases are inclined to folJow the example of
H,eir big brothers, and give their stockhold·
ns no information which it is not abso·
lutely necessary to give. A pleasing excep·
tion is noted in an article in this issue giv·
ing the details vf Shaft sinking costs at a
Kevada mine. .~n this case the stockholder
can gain a c!ear insight into the operation
cf his company, and the attitude of the
r.lanagement is to be commended. ,Ve are
em ; 1" " 1m " t?
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informed that this particular lot of informa·
tion is not an exception with this company,
but that the re;JOrt given is only a sample
0' 'What the management does for its stock·
r.olders, and that this sort of report is the
regular thing with them.
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GOLD CIRCLE NEWS.
(Special Correspondence.)
Midas, Nev., Feb. 20.-The crosscut tun·
n el on the Gold Dollar group is in 400 feet.
Pa vid Kuntz, who is superintending the
work, says he expects to cut the Rex vein
ill 75 feet, at a depth of about 300 feet. Thh
l.roperty joins the ReX on the south.
B. P. Howell and Parker Liddell, owners
of the Judge mine, have completed surveys
for a mill site and water rights. They
expect to 'build a tenor-tamp mill this spring.
They will handle some custom ore.
A bond was taken last week on the Queen
group by Robert Bolam, representing John
1:. and George Pelion, of National. They
~re to commence 'Work March 1st. The first
cash payment was made today.
Ruben Brown, one of the owners of the
Hardscrabble, is takin;5 out some fine ore for
a mill run.
Luke Kearney, manager of the Sleeping
Beauty mine, is expected in camp soon. It
!f: reported the -company will install its mill
this spring.
Herman Mattern and associates have
taken an option en the Golden Fisher group,
which joins ·the Belvoir, where he is doing
considerable development work.
John Kootshas 100 tons of ore on the
dpmp that will average $75, and says he
still has $25,000 in sight, ready to take out
above the 125-foot level.
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Another Monel! slimer will be installej
at the Eureka mill, at the mouth of Boulder
canyon. Boulder, Colorado. R. A. Mann is
Itl!lllager of the property.
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John F. ·Cowan, of Salt Lake and Barn­
ard Binnard have taken an option on the
ground owned by the Original Rochester
Mines company, at Rochester, Nevada, from
Robert McIntosh, who f€Cently secured con­
trol of the company.
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An important strike has been made on
the 450-foot level of the Day-Bristol min,,",
near Pioche, Nevada, according to E. F.
Fruedenthal, vice-president of the operat­
ing company. There is shown about six
feet of $35 silver-lead ore.
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The contract has been let for the buUd­
ing of the Buckhorn mill in Eureka county,
N€vada. The mill foundations are about
completed. The plant will have a capacity
of 3.50 tons. This is a property controIled
by George Wingfield, of Goldfield.
'-men " t He. 1m 5
MIN IN G REV lEW, FEB R U A R Y
The Prospecto~
and HisB~J
(By Will G. Higgins.)
"You look this morning," said the pros­
pector to his burro, "as if you had been
playing Juliet to a long-eared Romeo, and
are as hysterical andfidgity as a hen who
had hatched out· a setting of duck eggs, or
as a mine manager who has put in an
amalgamation plant fOr the treatment of
his ores, and who had made the truly im·
portant discovery that only 15 per cent of
his gold would amalgamate.
"You seem a little peevish, and want
to know what a hen hatching ducks, or a
man putting in a free milling plant for the
treatment of refractory ores has to do with
you and your Romeo; which shows that
your mind is illogical and that you cannot
reason from cause to €ffect. The only con­
nection, in fact, is that you look flighty,
the hen nearly had a fit, and the mining
man very nearly lost his head; three con­
ditions that almost paralleL and which are
as entirely foreign to each othel< as you are
to the hen, the hen is to you, and the
mining man is to you and the hen You
say that I am making you so dizzy that yoU
feel sea sick, and that you wish I would
go on with my story before you begin to
doubt your own identity anj come to be­
lieve that yOU are either a hen Or a man,
or 'both; and so, if you will not interrupt
me ag,tin I will tell you about the mining
man who put in a milling plant for the
treatment of ore that was only 15 per cent
free, and bow he finally pulled himself
out of the hOle by the simplest and cheap­
est of all methods.
"This man," continued the prospector,
"mad€ a discovery of. an immense body
of ore out in the Peavine range, The ,blos­
som showed tree gold and lots of it, but,
when some depth had been attained and
the ledge. cross-cut in several places, the
mine "resolved itself into a milling propo­
sition going about $25 or $30 in gold to
the ton. In some portions of the vein the
ore was qulte rich; but, on the whole, the
conditions satisfied almost everyone that
treatment on the ground would be neces­
sary, and so a metallurgist in a coast town
28, 1913. 23
was consulted. Tests were made and fin­
ally an amalgamation plant, with a capa·
city of about ten tons per day, was in­
stalled. Th€re was joy in the camp When
the wheels began to go 'ronnd, and, when
the pulp spread out on the COpper plates
the mine·owner stood ready, with scraper
in hand, to clean off the great gobs of the
yellow metal which were soon to accumu­
late on the quick. But, the gobs refused to
accumulate, to amalgamate or, to reeipro­
cate, and danced down the tables, as if,
.to keep on Circulating was the only ob­
ject of their bright and glittering lives.
Thusly, when the mine owner saw his val­
lles heading for the dump without paying
any attention to. speed limitations, he
nearly lost his head, as I have previously
stated, and had he not been a wo:'ker who
never got discouraged he would have given
up the whole cheese and gone back hOrn€
to Mary. But, he did not despair and so
set about to find a process that would
save the ore values. Another metallurg;sc.
came fer a look-in, and he said that the
ore was not free-milling at all; as if the
mine-owner did not know it ,by that time;
and ajvised a very complex system of
leaching which called for the installation
of costly machinery. This advice was
adopted and, alter a period of several
months a trial run was made, and a lot
of $50·ore was put through. Here, again,
the gobs would not accumulate, amalga­
mate or reciprocate. In fact, they cried
OLt, 'nothing daing,' 'l.S they glided by and
sought seclusion and their soul mates in
the tailings pit; and again the mine·owner
raved and all .but tore his hair; and he
would haVe done this ,but for the fact that
he was bald. But, and it is a wonder,
the miu€-owner would not give up. The
gold WaS in the ore, and he wanted to get
it out, tor he had never given :\iary a dia­
mond ring, and all of his life he had
longed for a spike-tailed coat. And so he
went at it again. By some good chance
some very foolish and simpl€-]ooking per­
son suggested straight cyaniding. Simpli­
city, you know, is a twin·slster to success,
bnt is lacking in the frills and back-hair
curls that attract so many; and this is the
reason why there are so many milling fail­
ures throughout the mining camps of the
west. The mining man had had eXl:€rl­
ence with the frills and the back-hair
CHrIs, and this was the reason for his be­
ing willing to listen to the simple talk and,
finally, to adopt the most simple and in­
expensiye milling process ever invented
since gold-bearing gravel was put through
a sluke box. And, the process was a suc­
C€SS, b<>ing nothing more than taking the
ore, as it came from the mine, putting it
through a one-inch mesh screen, and then
dnmpiJlg It Into tanks into which a cyanide
solution was later introduced Like a gas
meter, the solution worked while its owner
slept, taking up th€ gold in the ore, anll
 THE SAL T
later gently depositing it on a mass of zin<;
shavings, which. in due time, found their
way to the melting pot, to come out bright
and yellow and suggestive, all' over, of dia­
mond rings and spiked-tailed coats.
"I want to tell you, Old Long Ears," con;,:
cluded the prospector, "many a good mine
has been condemned and abandoned ,be­
cause the milling 'process employed was
not adapted to it; ,because complex and ex­
pensive systems of treatment have been
elIl(lJloyed when the ore, if left alone, 'would
almost reduce itself. Some folks want the
frms and the 'back-hair curls; hut, as for
me, give me the simple life, the simple,pro­
cess; and there you are, and then some."
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NEVADA CON. SHOWS A DEFlclT.
The operations of the Nevada Consoli­
date of Ely, Nevada, for the last quarter of
1912 shows a deficit of $42,450 after payIng
the extra dividend of about $1,000,000. Net
earnings were about $300,000 less than for
the same quarter in the two preceding
years. The producUon was 8,986,905
pounds of copper, against an average of
about 18,000,000 for the other three quart­
ers. The reduction was due to nearly a
months idleness during the strike and the
milling of lower grade ores.
President Eccles, in his reports, says
"There was milled during the quarter
512,988 tons of Nevada Consolidated ore,
averaging 1.44 per cent copper, of which
477,948 were from pits and 35,040 from
Veteran mine. Grade was below mine's
average as a large low grade tonnage was
mined from east side of Eureka pit, where
material was of softer character and con­
ditions better adapted for breaking for
sh,am shovels.
"Due largely to disturbed foreign poli­
tical situation, reduced sales of coppel'
metal left us with abnormally large stock
on hand unsold December 31, 1912. In
determining earnings for the quarter, said
untold excess was valued at fifteen cents
and normal tonnage on hand and unsold at
12 1-4 cents as heretofore. Since Decem­
ber 31 a portion of the copper has been
sold _at prices in excess of valuation at
which it was taken into accounts in de­
termining earnings for the quarter."
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It is expected that an amendment will
be introduced Into the ,parliament of Brit­
ish Columbia, to enable the mining com­
panies, which were stricken from the l:st
of joint stock companies, to comply· wlb
the regulations, and regain their standing,
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Manager A. B. 'Cramer, of the Flora'
Mining- company, operating the Wild Bill
group in Beaver county, Utah, states that
It fourth lot of ore has been delivered to
the International smeltery, which should
run about twenty-five per cent lead and
thirty iron.
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LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, FEB R U A R Y
LATE DEVELOPMENTS AT BUTTE.
At,aconda Completing Large Piece of
.. Development.
The Anaconda in making a connection
from the High Ore mine on the 2,200-foot
level, encountered a large new vein in the
Modoc ground and the same vein, a re­
markably rich orebCJdy, ,has been cut on the
2,800-foot level, says the Boston Commerc­
ial.
It is, one of the biggest strikes in Butte
in recent years.
Within a week the Modoc shaft will be
completed to the connection from the 2,800
level of the High Ore mine, the new hoist­
ing engine will be ready and one of the
largest pieces of underground work under­
taken by the Anaconda company during t1'\e
past year will have ,been completed. ' each unit was built to handle thIS 250 tons
With the Modoc shaft in operation to
the 2,800-foot level some of the work will
be taken from the High Ore in the way
of handling waste and timbers, and the
several large leads in the Modoc district
will be iWorked with an increased force, the
ore all to be hoisted at the High Ore.
As the Modoc is about 200 feet lower
than the High Ore the bottom of the form­
er shaft connecting with the 2,800 of the
High Ore will be 2,600 feet deep.
Sinking at the Modoc, which has been
in operation for about six months was one
of the fastest and most economical pieces
of shaft sinking ever done in Butte.
A drift was run northeast on the 2,800
level of the High Ore and when directly
under the M:Odoc shaft a raise was started.
The surveyors' work was perfect and with
the Modoc sinking and the High Ore rais­
in5, the shaft and raise met to a fooL
\Vhen the junction was made, a waste
chute was installed from that point to the
bottom of the raise which saved shovel­
ing the rock which was dumped into the
chute and trammed to the 2,800 foot sta­
tion of the Hig\! Ore, The Modoc shaft
from the 1,600 to the 2,600 was made in
record time.
The gallows frame which will be used
with the new engine was the one formerly
at the E'ast Gray Rock.
When the new plant gets in operation,
practically all the High Ore timber will
be lowered through the Modoc, besides all
the waste will be handled by the new
plant,
Within the past year the discovery of
several big ledges in Modoc territory neces­
sitated the connection with the bottom
level of the High Ore.
In the early days of the Anaconda com­
pany, the Modoc was a fair sized producer..
About seventeen years ago, the 'mine was
closed down as the ore bodies seemed to
pinch to a small size.
During the past five years the mine
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28, 1 91 3.
has been worked through the High Ore and
about a year ago, the mother lead of the
Sunny Side claim was found to be large
and of good values in the lower levels
of the once abandoned mine.
The milling troubles of Butte & Super­
ior have been very largely discussed and
are generally blamed for the decline of
$20 a share in the price of the company's
stock.
These milling troubles are not generally
understood. If they were they would not
cause anyone to entertain doubt as to the
company's future operating results and
profits.
Briefly, the Butte & Superior mill was
designed to treat only 500 tons of ore, con­
sisting of two sections, each having .a
capacity of 250 tons daily.
The flotation system connected with
and the crushing machinery instaHed in
each unit was designed to crush the same
amount of ore,
More recent developments have demon­
strated that each section can be made to
handle 650 to 700 tons of ore daily. Con­
centrating equipment has bei\n installed in
one section that will readily take care of
this greatly increased tonnage and recover
by simple concentratioll about 65 per cent
of all the values in the ore, comparing with
a recovery of about 50 per cent in this
department by the jigs and tables originally
provided.
As a result both the crushing and the
flotaUon departments are of course inade·
quate to handle this larger tonnage and
consequently the first is being strength­
ened and the capacity of the second largely
increased.
Nearly 600 tons a day is now going
through the mill, the crushing department
being forced up to this limit; but only
about 250 tons of the jig and table tailings
can be p,ut through the flotation system
until after it is enlarged to 500 or 600 tons
daily capacity. As a result there is a sav­
ing of about 65% by direct concentration
and of 20% more from less than half the
tailings, making a total of around 70 to
75% recovered altogether.
It will be seen, therefore, that there is
nothing fundam'entally wrong with the mill·
ing practice or results, low recoveries be­
ing due wholly to lack of sufficient present
flotation capacity.
The flotation department is being ex­
tended and more fine grinding and crush­
ing equipment is being installed, thus bring­
ing the different departments of the mill
i1'to harmony in the matter of capacity.
The widely discussed milling troubles
of Butte & 'Superior, therefore, are not
troubles at alL One half the mill is now
treating more ore than the whole plant wa~
designed to handle. The ultimate results
will tremendously exceed expectations; but
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to arrive at these more and different equip·
ment had to be provided and its installa·
tion naturally will require a little time.
The Butte & Superior mine is bigger
today than it ever was before. The long
crosscut to the north into recently acquired
territory has opened up four additional zinc
veins, Compared w'ith the big Black Rock
vein in the Butte & Superior these new
veins are small; but compared with any
other high grade zinc deposits in the world
they are very large, Their development
will go ahead in the regular courSe of busi­
ness; but as the company has 10 to 12
years' are supply in its mine already then,
is no occasion to hurry about opening up
other deposits.
Figures have been made recently which'
indicate that Butte & Superior will make
a net profit of approximately $5 a ton on
Its ore with spelter selling at six cents a
pound. (It is now selling at 6.55 cents.)
Wi~hin three to six months, or possibly
a little longer, all of the company's con·
struction work should be completed and
dividend payments ought to begin before
the end of this year.
Ahead of Butte & Supertor there are im·
portant possibilities of greatly Increased
profits, beyond those suggested In the fore­
going paragraphs. The gross value of its
ore is $28 to $30 a ton and a consideraille
portion of this, nearly half, is wasted by
present-day smelting 'practice and paid out
in freight on concentrates, Different meth­
ods are being considered and investigated
which may make it possible for the com·
pany to increase its profit per ton 50 to
100% in the future.
The organization of the new board of
the Butte & Superior Copper company, has
b€en effe.cted, with N. Bruce MacKelvie as
president; K. R. Babbitt, vice-president;
and C, \V. Peters, treasurer.
The number of directors was reduced
fr,om nine to five, with the election of N.
B, MacKelvie, K. R. Babbitt, D. C. Jackling,
A. B. Wolvin and C. W. Peters.
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The report of the Ray Consolidated
Copper company, of Ray, Arizona, for the
last ,quarter, shows operating profits of
$578,621, and total for the year of $2,069,­
.093. The production for the quarter was
.10.496,661 pounds, costing 9,3754 cents a
pound, the total for the year being 35,861.­
496 pounds at an average cost of 9.828
cents,
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1:wenty·three tons of ore containing
69,55 per cent lead and three ounces of
silver was recently received at a 'Salt Lake
smeltery from the property of the Lead
King Mining company, in \'{hite Pine coun­
ty, Nevada. A. B. Colwell, superintendent,
has informed the Salt Lake owners that
he has six to seven feet of this rich ma­
terial.
MIN I N G REV lEW, FEB R U A R Y 2 S, 1 913. 25
THE MINES OF TONOPAH. At 1,170 feet, which the shaft has now
reached, a statiC!n will be cut and drift
Nevada Camp Stili Showing G~eat Activity, run to the "are, which is expected to be
-- ~ even better than on the 980 and 1,700.
(Special Correspondence.)' pevelopment on a new vein on the 1,070 is
During January the operations of the bc;ing carried ahead. About tWenty·five
Tonopah-Belmont Development company tons a day is being shipped, A raise fif­
resulted as follows: number dry tons mill­ teen feet above this level recently ,broke
eel, 12,517; net value of ore, $244,124.69; into six feet of are running about $150.
number ounces gold bullion produced, 2,­ The MacNamara is raising on the are
998,177; number ounees silver ,bullion pro­ at the 550, much $30 are being opened up
duced, 301,736.20; net profit for January, by this work. This is in the Lower Can·
$150,484,61. Development for the month tact vein. On the 300, there is a large
is satisfactory, the big Belmont vein show­ tonnage of mill are. The mill at the pres­
ing good results in the' east drif~ on the ent time is treating seventy-five tons a
1,300. day, which is taken from four to six feet
Tonopah Mining made net profits of on the 30D. This means about 7,5 tons per
over $130,0()0 for January, their report day per stamp.
showing as fdllows: number dry tons mill· The main working shaft of the Midway
ed, +4,720; average value per ton, $1803; is down 455 feet, and about 100 tons of are
was shipped in the second week in Feb­
onnces gold and silVer bullion shipped,
ruary from the 535-foot level, where there
241,435; total value of bullion, $197,700;
is two and one-half feet of good are,
nu:mber tons concentT-ates shipped, 110;
The work of retimbering the Bonanza
tctal value of concentrates, $41,850; net
shaft is proceeding steadily.
profit for January, $130,143. Development
Excellent progress is ,being made in the
on the Mizpah has been discontinued, all
trachyte in the north crosscut of the Hal­
. attention now being devoted to stoping.
fax, near the Belmont line, where develop·
On the ,Sand Grass claim a station will ibe
ment is concentrated, the work on the
cut at the 600. A,bout 300 feet of develop·
1,OOD having ,been stopped temporarily.
ment work is being done' each week.
The shaft has now reached 1,530 feet.
Important developments are reported on
Shaft sinking is being continued on the
tDe 515 level of the Montana', and also on
~orth Star, Umatifla-Tonopah, New Gold­
the 615, where new work is being done.
en Crown, Tonopah Victor, where new
Three to four feet of good mililng are is
equipment is being installed, the Rescue­
found on the former and about a foot, on
Eula, Great Western Con, 'Tonopah Min­
which no work has been done, on the lat­
ing & Leasing.
ter. On another portion of this same level ····----o~-·--
fifteen to sixteen feet of excellent milling FIRST MEETING OF NEW ELY CENTRAL.
are is opening up, The company will soon
sink a deep working shaft in the north­ At Wilmington, Dejaware, re,cently, the
ern section of its territory. fo)lowing were elected officers of the Ne,y
The Jim Butler made profits for Janu­ Ely Central Copper com.pany, which i,s the
ary of $20,612 from 1,684 tons, or a net 'rEorganization of the old Ely Central, which.
profit of $12.2,5 per ton, which is an in­ met disaster at the hands of the no-torious
crease in both tonnage and profits over E. H. Scheftels & CompanY,-James Milne,
Decemb-er operations. The development Is ot Boston, president; John G. Gray, of Wil·
very satisfactory on both the fifth and mington, vice-president; E. Ellerton Lodge,
sixth levels and work has ,been ,begun or... (I( Boston, treasurer; Jonathan BroWn. of
the seventh. On the sixth the are is four­ WHmington, secretary, and J. Pier.ce Cann,
teen feet wide and still widening in gOOf! (If \Vilmington, lldditional director. Surface
milling ore. rights to over 37,000 acres have been sold
The Tonopah Extension continues to to the Nevada Consolidated, whose ground
open up good milling are on the 400, 50D adjOins, at Ely, Nevada, with the provision
and (rOO-foot levels, which is being milled trat the latter drill 1,500 feet, and deed back
at the rate of 160 tons a day . any Pit ore of commercial grade, which may
The main shaft of the West End is now be found.
down something over 800 feet. At 836 Drill hole's will be put down to ascer­
feet a drift will be run to connect with tain the extent of are, on which an estimate
the }lcNamara. When the new compr-es­ a' 20,000,000 tons of a net value of $1 per ton
sor plant is installed worK will be resum­ [,ad been made, The Clipper shaft will be
edon the old Ohio shaft, at the 700. Most extended and will be the main working
of the new work is ,being done on the 600, shaft. if developments are favorable, In
thE' vein having flatt.ened below the 500, the Josie claim there is at present two and
so that raises will be put up to reach it or.e-half feet of ere at a depth of eighty-six
from below. feel.
The Merger is mining only sufficient The directors may exercise an option on
.ore to cover operating expenses, but is do­ a deyeloped Californi'~ property, with mill·
ing a great deal of deep development work. illg equipment.
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arch dams in the world, to be built at Sal­ It will discharge automatically into a 500­

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mon Creek, Alaska, and wi!l replace its
wooden tramway and horses with steel and
ton storage ,bin and the ore then will pass
over grizzlies and through crushers into
It is reported that a large compressor . a locomotive, a 200-ton mill bin, from which it will travel
will be installed at the old Daly mine, at CaPtain James Alexander is making through revolving screens, jigS and Foils
Park City, Utah. arrangements for the installation of a to the classifiers and concentrating tables.
The excavation for the mill was completed
A new high power engine is to be in­ forty-stamp mill, concentrating and cyanid­
recently and the first car of machinery and
stalled on the ,Southern Cross mine at ing apparatus for the Engineer mine at
two cars of lumber have arrived already
Georgetown, Montana. AWn, British Columbia. A hydro'electric
~t Idora station, on the Murray branch of
Plans for a new mill at the Lamartine plant is included in the plans.
the O. W, R. & X, where the railway com­
mine, in Clear Creek county, Colorado, are Intention to install a stamp and cyan­ pany. is installing a spur for the conveni­
said to ,be under consideration. ide mill on the Diamond Hitch, a widelY ence of the minIng company. The mill is
A fifty-ton cyanide plant is contem­ known property of the Oro Grande dis­
to be built in units, and the plans pro­
plated for the Hidden Lake property at trict of Idaho, was announced by Orrin vide for a 150-ton structure when the out­
Georgctown, Montana, to be erected this Lamb, sole owner, while in 'Spokane, put of the mine warrants increasing the
spring, Washington The Majestic construction
treating facilities.
will not begin until snow leaves,
New machinery will be installed at, the ----0---­
Crown Point and Yellow Jacket mines, Engineers will submit the plans for the
near Drytown, is the report from Jackson, mechall;ical part of the 500-ton mill of th!:) CONSTRUCTION NOTES.
California. Aurora Consolidated Mines company, of
George S Mills will erect a cement plant
William p, Jones and W. W. Curtis Aurora, Nevada, to the directors of the
at Vale, Oregon.
have taken an option on the Josephine company soon, The Knight interests of
mine, near Jamestown, California, and will Provo, Utah, and the Knox interests, of The Minden creamery will install a large
Install machinery. Tonopah, Nevada, control this company, motor truck at Garson ,City, Nevada,
The Kama mine in the Soledad moun· Three new mills are contemplated in 'Walter J Farr has applied for a light,
tains, six miles from Mohave, California, Colorado. At Cripple Creek, the Union heat and power franchise at Ault, Colorado.
is to be equipped with a mill of at least Leasing company expects to put up a plant George Carl has asked for a franchise
150 tons capacity. on the. ground of the Gold Sovereign Min­ to light the town of Alamogordo, New
AI D, Myers, prinCipal owner of the ing & Tunnel company, and the owners of Mexico.
Ely ,Calumet Copper company, at Ely, Ne· the Pride of Cripple Creek may also erect Roland B. Barnett has applied for a
vada, will proba,bly staJ;t work at the prop· a plant. At Idaho Springs, twenty stamps franchise to erect an electric plant at
erty with the aid of new machinery. will be added to the Mattie mill, to raise Cortez, Colorado.
its capacity to l()iO tons, George Jacobs, of Condon, Oregon, con­
The Rochester Mines company, Roches·
ter, Nevada, is reported as about to be An option for $30,\'00 has ,been taken on templates the erection of a power plant
equipped with an oil burning power plant the Mlldred group of free gold propertle.., on John Day ,river.
to furnish power and light to Rochester on Ramey Ridge, oetween Elk City and W, D, Hill, of Tremonton. Box Elder,
and Oreana. Thunder mountain, Idaho, ,by Bob MabT) , county, Utah, will purchase a gasoline or
The interests backing the ,Satula, Mary and Edward A. Moye of 'Spokane, 'Vasa­ 011 traction engine.
Ellen, and other mines at Atlantic City, ington, The owners are August Herzog August Grimm has been -granted a fran·
Wyoming, are arranging to install an ele~· and T. G. Thomas, who located the ground chise to ereet a power and light plant at
t'ric power plant for the properties and 10 years ago l1rection of a five·stamp Medicine Bow,·Wyoming.
surrounding country. mill and the addition of stamps as reo
Thomas P. Patrick has been granted a
The capf\city of the Bullwhacker leach­ sources are increased, is proposed.
franchise to build an eleetric light and
ing plant, east of Butte, Montana, is to be According to John S. Loder of the Reno power plant at Walden, ColoradO.
increased from fifty to 250 tons. Patrick Smelter company plans have been almost The Oro Water, Light & Power company
Clark is president of the company, and completed and detailed drawings for the is planning to build an electrically oper·
M. S, Webster, superi!ltendent proposed smeltery to be erected east of ated dredge to cost about $75,000.
The directors of the Verde Mining com­ Reno, Nevada, just beyond the Gypsum
Jany, operating in Big Cottonwood canyon, works and bonds will ,be issued shortly to A bond issue of $50,000 will be submitted
:lear Salt Lake City, are reported to be at the spring election at Havre, Montana,
finance the work, The drawings call for
:onsiderlng the advisabiiity of erecting a for providing a municipal light plant.
II "OO·ton eapacity plant in two units of
nm to treat its free milling gold ores, 350 tons each. The plant proposed includes C. H. Bristol of the Santa Fe railroad,
It is the intention of the management two 250 ,horse-power water wheels; two 250­ announces that the company will spend a
If the Reo Mining company, operating the ten furnaces, sampler, converter, gas large sum in Pueblo, Colorado, terminals,
{:eystone mines in Quartz Valley, near neutralizer, stack, besides ore,bins, line The Arkansas Valley Railway, Light &
;entral City, Colorado, to purchase or sh.,,fting, pulleys, belts and conveyors. Power company will apply for a light and
,reet a mill, to treat the $8 ore of the Directors of the ,Idora Hill Mining com­ power franchise fOr Cripple Creek, Qolo·
ompany, rad').
pany, having a property near Wallace,
Dennis Phelan, manager of the Sierra Idaho, authorized immediate construction The 'Southern Sierra Power company
[ercantile, . Power & Mining company, Is of a 50,ton daily capacity concentrator, and will construct several plants on the Owens
lanning to erect an electric power plant a 150·ton capacity aerial tramway, to cost river and enter the Randsburg, California,
) operate the machinery of the Sacred approximately $25,000, The mm is to be district.
[ound mine and mill, near Sierra City, designed espeCially for the treatment of A mill site has been purchased by the
alifornia, Idora Hill ores, which are lead, silver and Chancellor Flour Mills company, it ·being
The Alaska Gastineau Mining company zinc. The tramway will be a Riblett type" the purpose to erect a flour mill in Salt
as accepted plans for one of the biggest 2,000 feet long, with a drop of 1,100 feet. Lake City,

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 THE SALT LAKE
The Home Water & Power company
contemplates the installation of an elec­
trically driven pump 'at 'Mount Vernon,
Washington.
The Southern Pacific railroad is plan­
ning to extend the Visalia Electric com"
pany's line through Dunnigan Gap to
Fresno, 'California.
Lewis Montgomery, of Portland, Oregon,
has purchased the electric plant at Toledo,
Oregon, and will ,build a power house and
instail new machinery.
The Oregon Short Line will extend its
Twins Fails, Idaho, line to make a connec­
tion with Central Pacific. The line will
probably run from Rogerson, Idaho, to
Metropolis, Nevada.
According to Henry Grler, general agent
of the Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad, the
management of the road is seriously con­
templating the construction of the exten­
sion between Tonopah and GDldfield.
Plans and speCifications have been pre­
pared by FrederickH. Meyer, Investment
building, San Francisco, for a one-story re­
inforced concrete substation to be erected
by the Pacific Gas and l'Jlectric company.
Among improvements for the Albur­
querque Gas, Electric Light & Power com­
pany, at Albuquerque, New Mtexico, will be
two 300-horse power water·tube boilers es­
pecially designed to burn wood pulp. A.
F. Van Diense is manager.
Judge R(}bert E. Lewis has issued an
order in the federal court at Denver, autho,·
izing the receivers of the Denver, North­
western & Pacific (Moffatt) road to sell
$650.000 worth of receivers certificates, the
proceeds to be used for the purchase of
equipment.
The Rogue cUiver Public ,Service corp­
oration, newly organized to take over the
property of the Chicago'Rogue River com­
pany, is planning to erect two more power
plants and construct five miles of irriga­
tion ditches. George E. ,Sanders is presi­
dent, George 'V. Soranson, secretary and
Robert E. Gaut, consulting engineer. They
can be reached at Grants Pass, Oregon.
Plans are being completed for the erec­
tion of the hydroelectric power plant on
the Portneuf river, at Lava, Idaho, in which
L. R. Martineau, of 'Salt Lake, and J. D.
Browning are interested. A head of 175
feet is available A dam will be construct·
ed. as well as 1,000 fee: of canal, and ac­
cessories. Light and power will be furnish­
ed to Pocatello, Downey and McCammon.
The W. C. Hendrie Rubber company.
with offices at Denver and ,Sait Lake is to
build a $100,000 rubber plant at the in­
dustrial City of Torrance,Caiifornia, work
to begin within ninety days. The main
Juilding will ,be 640 feet by sixty feet, and
'ive others will be fifty ,by lOG feet. There
.viii be, also, an office, and power house.
~oUr hundred and eighty electrical horse·
lower will be used.
ttl - ny-u JJt MlS
MINING REVIEW, FEBRUARY
AN IMPORTANT OIL STRIKE.
In the northwest corner of New Mexico.
near Farmington, a well has been brought
in, which is 1.700 feet deep and has 1,200
feet of oil. The exact location of this well
is about twelve miles west of Farmington
and four miles northwest of Fruitland. It
was drilled by the Little Standard Oil com·
pany. About sixty barrels were baled out
without lowering the well more than ten
inches. A committee of men investigated
the well and gave the following report:
"In verification of the report Which
reached Farmington that oil had been struck
in the Mattox well, fifteen miles west of
};'armington. we beg to report having vis·
ited and inspected the well and find ail
follows: Depth of the well. 1,700 feet. eight­
in,:h hole, finished after passIng ,through
1,000. feet of shale and 180 feet of caprock,
thence into the, oil sand. It will probably
be a fifty-barrel well of light paraffine quali­
ty. Several barrels already brought to the
surface in testing oil within 500 feet of
sl~l'face." "NED T. SKAGGS.
"WILLIAM BUTLER,
"ORVAL RICKETTS."
Another forty· barrel well was brought
in later at 900 feet about forty miles south·
west of Farmington, which has a gravity of
thirty-eight to forty·two degrees and paraf­
fine base. This result has stirred up the
oil men of the country, and many believe
that the field is part of the same anticline
as the San Juan field, which is some seventy
miles distant. Large eastern interests, we
are informed, are, at the present time, ttg­
uring on going into both fields, as it is be·
lieved that this New Mexico strike augurs
well for the San Juan field, the formation
being similar.
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The principles governing the origin and
mode of occurrence of petroleum and nat­
ural gas are as yet but fragmentarily grasp­
ed by geologists. Every oil field examined
in detail contributes its data for use in
the eventual interpretation of the prob­
·lems, and each pool is studied with keen
.alertness for the discovery of some key
that may aid in the coordination of the
data which someUmcs, according of the
region and conditions, seem, on account
of our lack of knowledge, even to be in
conflict The observations made by the
geologists of the United States Geological
,Survey in the oil and 'gas tielas of Call·
fornia and Kentucky promise to further the
solution of some of the problems, and by
pointing out the relations of oil and gas
occurrence to the geologic structure of the
regions examined they have rendered im­
portant scientific as well as economic aid
in oil and gas development; but the basic
principles controlling the widely variea
modes of occurrence and accounting for the
differences in kinds of the oils in widely
separated regions are possibly still far
from view.
"=
28, 1913. 27
Personal M enlion
Frank Leland, of Mackay. Idaho, was a
recent Salt Lake visitor.
Fred C. Dern has returned to Salt Lake
from a trip to Honolulu
J. Williams, of Butte. Montana, has
been on a trip to Florence, Arizona.
W. H. Aldrich, managing director of
the Gunn-Thompson interests, was in Salt
Lake recently.
A. B. :Shipman, of Ouray, Colorado, sup­
erintendent of the Atlas mill, has gone to
DeKalb. Illinois.
P. A. McKensie. of Oakland, California,
is in the Yerington district, of :'o.'evada.
looking for investments.
W. P. Garrison, of Pas<adena,. Cali­
fornia, has gone to Chloride, Arizona, to
examine the Hercules mines.
Joe B. 'Varner and J. E. 1<~arbach, of
IX-nver. spent several days at Ouray Colo­
rado. on mining business recently.
K. C. Wooley, of Salt Lake, has been
inspecting the recent strike at the Ma­
jestic mine, in Beaver county, Utah.
Albert Larsen, mine superintendent of
the Union Chief, SantaqUin district, Utah,
was in Salt l.ake over the holiday.
James GOeden has been in San Frap­
cisco arranging for a mill for his propert5
at Klondike, near Tonopah, Nevada.
M. M. Johnson, consulting engineer for
t:e Wilbert Mining company. in the Dome
district of Idaho, has gone to the mine.
A. ,S. Ross, president of the Cash Boy
:\-fining company, and well known Salt
Lake Mining man has gone to New York.
James G Berryhill. vice-president of
tile Nevada Douglas Copper company. of
Nevada, has been in ISalt Lake recently.
W. D. Grannis, of Pasadena, 'California,
has gone to his properties in the lower part
of Deluge waSh. near Kingman, Arizona.
A. J. Orem, of A J. Orem & Company,
of Boston, was in Salt Lake for a few days
recently, and has now returned to Boston.
Grant Snyder has returned to Salt Lake
from a trip to 'iVisconsin where he exam·
ined some lead·zinc properties for eastern
people.
William J. Cheley, general manager of
the Dear River Coal company, of Evans­
ton, 'Wyoming. was a recent Salt Lake
visitor.
Fred ;Strehlke has returned to Ely.
Nevada, after spending some time in Cali­
fornia, inspecting mines in the Panamint
district.
Richard Gies, of Great Falls, Montana,
has been visiting his mining properties,
twelve miles east of Baker, Oregon. The
claim Is known as the Gold Stone, and
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considerable development has been done on
it 'during the past ten years:
Howard S :Stowe has returned to Salt
Leadville, Colorado, and the Portland Gold
Lake from a trip to California, 'Where he
and associates are interested in a copper
property.
Peter ,Steele, general manager of the
Banner Mining & Milling company, has re­
turned to ,Silver City, Idaho, fFom an east­
ern trip.
W. G. Adamson, formerly of Salt Lake,
manager of the Adamson-Turner property
at Winnemucca, Nevada, was recently in
Salt Lake.
E. L. Ta1bot, of Park City, Utah, sup­
erintendent of the Daly West, has become
superintendent of the Thompson-Quinc~ in
the same camp..
H. P. Howe, of the E'rontenae and To­
peka mines, of 'Central City, 'Colorado, who
has been in England, returned on the last
trIp of the Mauretania.
C. D. 'Porter, of San Francisco, who is
interested in mining in Amador county,
,california, has been looking over the Yer­
ington district of Nevada.
W. T. Chappell, of 'Saginaw, Mich:gan,
owner Of the ,Standard mine on Fall creek,
near Idaho :Springs, Colorado, has arrived
in that city for a stay of a few weeks.
,Chester H. Proebstel, of Yreka, Cali­
fornia, was recently at Grants Pass, Ore­
gon, in connection with his recently ac­
quired copper properties in the Kerby sec­
tion.
A. C. Massey, manager of'the Rico Min·
ing company, and C. D. Smith, manager of
the Rico-Argentine Mining company, both
Jf Rico, Colorado, were recent arrivals at
3alt Lake.
E. H. Mead, of Tonopah, Nevada, sec·
'etary of the Tonopah Leasing & Mining
:ompany. which has a lease on the Cash
:loy, at Tonopah, was in Salt Lake for a
ew days recently.
Harry J Murrish, ot Lovelock, Nevada,
ecretary of the Rochester Mines company,
.nd the ,Seven Troughs Coalition, has gone
o Denver for a short visit and will return
o Nevada, the first of March.
I.J_ Luce, vice president of the South­
rn Oregon and Northern ·California Min­
Ig companies. was a recent visitor at
·rants Pass, Oregon. His home is at
etna, Siskiyou county. California.
John T. Hayes, who has been working
is properties at Railroad pass, near Los
egas, Nevada, will spend the summer in
~lt Lake He expects first to look at
.me copper properties in which he is in­
rested near Caliente, Nevada.
Walter Harvey Weed, of New York,
rmerly with the United states Geological
lrvey, has taken an option on the pub­
Ihing rights of the well known .stevens
lpper Handbook.
MIN I N G REV lEW, FEB R U A R Y
[Engineers and Mil/men
J. V. N. Dorr,of Denver, is in Panama.
W. \V. Breen is mill manager for the
Bishop Creek Milling company, Sonora,
California.
J. Cleveland Haas, of Spokane, Wash·
ington, has been examining mines near Elk
City, Idaho.
R. G. Thomas has gone from Miami,
Arizona, to examine mines near Hillsaide,
New Mexico.
E. P. Jennings, of Salt Lake, has been
elected president of the Utah Metals Min­
ing company, operating in the Bingham dis­
trict of Utah.
Archie E. Palen, recently" from the Phil­
!plnes, is in charge of the mine oper"tion15.
at the Richardson mine, in Russell gulch,
near Central City, Colorado.
M. W. Atwater, formerly connected with
the Butte & Superior, at Butte, Montana,
will succeed \Villiam B_ Fisher as manager
oi the Davis-Daly Copper company.
:Stanley Easton, of the Bunker Hill &
Sullivan Mining company, of the Coeur
d'Alenes of Idaho, was recently in San Fran­
cisco.
C. F. Buck, who ha;; been rebuilding the
smeltery at Tacoma, \Vashington, will be­
come chief engineer and sUperintendent of
construction with the Dominion Nickel
company, Ltd., of Sudbury, Ontario.
Changes in the staff at the Anaconda
smeltery at Anaconda, Montana, have reo
suited. in the following appointments, L.
Y. Bender, assistant superintendent, Harry
\\'ares, superintendent of blast furnaces, and
'Roy E. Howe, chief chemist.
B. A_ Bosqui, mill superintendent of the
:r.!Qntana-Tonopah Mining company, of
Tonopah, Nevada, is in Salt Lake, in con­
sultation with Kirk and Leavell; in con·
nEdion with the new mill for the Aurora
Consolidated Mines company, at Aurora,
Nevada.
G. C. Webb, of the C. O. D. Consolidated
property at Tonopah, Nevada, who has had
a wide experience in 'California, Utah and
rSouth Africa, has gone to New York and
London, from where he will sail for Bahia,
Brazil. and go to a point 355 miles inland
to assume charge of a large diamond and'
gold mining concession, held ,by a London
company.
Max Boehmer, who, during the life of the
late David Moffatt, had charge of his ex­
tensive mining interests, died at 'his home
in Denver, February 14. Death was the reo
sult of a strain received two weeks pre­
viously, while he was examining the Bunker
Hill mine in Idaho. 'Mr. Boehmer was long
connected with large mining companies in
Colorado, Nevada and Idaho, and at the
time of his death, was consulting engineer
r SSf
28, 1913.
for the Iron & Silver Mining company, at
I
Mining company, at Victor, Colorado. He
was 66 years of age.
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N.EW COLORADO STRIKE.
A silver strike is at present attracting
,the attention rrf Colorado miners to the
Brush creek section near Eagle, Eagle
county.
We reprint the following statements
from the Leadville Herald Democrat:
"The absorbing topic of conversation on
the streets yester{iay among mining men
and laymen was the strike at Brush creek,
and all sorts of .stories could be heard as
to the immense deposit and the richness
thereof and tbe prospective millionaires that
were in sight. However, the truth of the
rua.tter remains ,that the ore is there and
'p:enty of it and that the original claim is
being worked steadily.
"J. B. McDonald, who is on the ground
ar..d has been there for the past four days,
ir! a telephone conversation with a repre­
sentative of the Herald-Democrat, said:
"'So far the strike is all that is claimed
for it, the ore is ,here and :in sig'ht, with
ageays running from lOB to 6,50 ounces silver
per ton and it also carries 2 per -c'ent van­
adium. I am of the opinion that the forma­
tion in which the ora is found is Dakota
sundstone with the <:ountry rock a shale.
There is no blue lime nor gypsum :to be
fcund on the hill ani! the sandstone caps
the hill. The ore was found on Horse
mountain, which stangs alone_ between west
Brush creek and .salt creek and Is be­
tween 700 to BOO feet high, and through
this hill runs a fault which is above the
ore deposition.
.. 'One can tell very little about the trend
or the ore shoot on account of the coun­
try being covered by several feet of snow.
All that Is so far known is that the tun­
nel driven on the ore is in fifteen feet
with the extent of the ore deposit still un­
known. But there is ore to ,be seen every­
where in the cut and has been since the
tunnel was faced up. The owners of the
claim hae quit work on the discovery tun·
nel and gone down, the hill twenty feet
and have started a tunnel at this point
to cut the ore deposit deeper. [ shOUld
say that on the dump tuere Is a carload of
ore ready to be sent to the smelter.
"'1 never saw any deposit that resem­
. !bles it and the twenty strangers, all min­
ing men. who were here today, after visit·
ing the claim, make the same remark
that they never seen anything like it. \At
the breast of the tunnel the ore does not
run so high in silver, .but. to one side
where crosscutting has :been done, the van­
adium is found and here the values are
the highest. The deposit is on the south
side of Horse mountain, but as I have al·
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ready told you it is not known how it The third lead stack of the International
ti'ends, Numerous claims have been stak­
ed off, ,but whether they are on the trend
A round the State smeltery ,at International was put in eom­
miesion on February fifth, and the fourth
of the deposit remains to be seen; those It is reported that the Flagstaff has made on February 20. These stacks are the dup­
who have staked claims are doing the a strike of rich carbonate ore on Its 1,200­ licates of the two original furnaces des­
assessment work on them, but the claim :foot level at Park City. <:ribed in these columns some time ago. The
owned 'by Genn, <Camp and Wolverton is capacity of the plant has been raised to 1,000
The Daly \Vest Mining company, operat.
the only one that is in ore and being work­ -tons a day. Fires have been lighted in the
ing at Park City, recently held its allliuaJ
ed, One one side of the mountain copper cupper furnaces, which should be in opera­
has ,been found that runs from 2 to 3 per -meeting at Denver and r~elected the old tlOn again in a few days, for the first time
c('nt: dlrectors.
sillce the Bingham strike.
"State Mine Commissioner Thomas R. The lessees on the East TillltiC Develop­
The LoWer Mammcth Mining company.
Henahan was in the city yesterday, en ment in the eastern part of the Tintic sec­ of Mammoth, recently elected officers· for
route to the new camp, and he was shown tion a1"e shipping about a car of good zinc tte -coming year. They are: John Dern,
numerous specimens of the ore from the O1'e a week. pres.ident; A. 'r. Moon, vice-president; A.
strike. Thling familiar with vanadium, On the fifteenth of the month, the Yampa Reeves,secretary; "V. S. McCornick, treas·
having had considerable experience with mine at Bingham put on a fOl'Ce of seventy urer. James C. Dick will again 'be general
the class of ore in 'San Miguel county, he men, whieh marks the resumption of opera­ manager and E. E. Prir;e, superintendent.
said that there was no question as to this tic-ns for the first tilIne since the strlkJe.
The company has broken into the Hungarian
mineral being in the deposit, but that in D!lring January, the Chief Consolidated, vein on the 1,800. It is twelve feet wide,
San Miguel vanadium mines no silver or at Tintic, hoisted 8,000 tons of material and
and of low value, although it was a com·
gold were associated with the mineral. did 900 feet of <development work. The
mercial {)rebody at the 700. Work: will be
Mr. Henahan will make an exhaustive in­ main ·shaft is now below 1,800 feet and wm
continued to find better values, Present
quiry into the new strike. He stated that
be continued till water Is reached. production is coming from the 1,500.
the average values in the ,gan 'Miguel ,prop­
erties were about 2 per cent and that all It is reported 'that the high grade ore at The C. C. Consolidated MIning company,
of the ore was concentrate" by the PPimos the Alta Consolidated which appeared on the whose property 'adjoins the Silver King at
C;lemical (Jompany at its mill at Newmire. ,hanging wall of the vein .in which the winze Park City, will sink its shaft from 450 teet,
"J. C. F. Christian has figured out the is being put down, has now come tn on the to 1,450. The steam 'hoist will be electri­
elevation of the new strike to be 7,500 feet foot, 'the whole bottom of the winze ,being in fied. Stations will be cut and drifts run
and that it is located on the northeast ore. iThe high grade streaks are eIght -to every 250 {)r 300 feet. The company has
corner of school section No, 32, and is twelve inches wide. serne ore in the hanging wall, and expects
Four of the six leverberator:ies at the to find an orebody in the foot. One of the
nearly in a direct line east of Holy Cross
mountain. GHfield smeltery of the A. S. & R., are now rich orebodies of the ,si1v~r King is ex­
On his return from the camp, Mr. Hen­ using oil fuel, and the other two are being pected to pass inbo C, C. C. ground. Of­
ahan said: prep-ared for the change. It is expected that ficers of the company are W. L. Snyder,
"It is another Crede. If the. ·pace -is about 1,200 barrels a day will be consumed. president; B. F. Bauer, vice-president; M.
kept up this camp w_ll take its place at The arches of the furnaces .have been raised H.Sowles, secretary-treasurer, and Sher·
the top of the list of camps that lead the and ,the furnaces widened. man Fargo, J: A. Cunningham, E. J. Rad­
world. Assays that I have made on my datzand Mismarck ISnyder, additional
IThe Tintic Central Mining company, of
return to Denver show that the strike runs the Tintic district, recently issued its annual directors. An engine and large compressor
as high as 1,000 ounces of silver to the reJ)Ort. Work was confined to development has been ordered.
ton. It is the greatest strike In Colorado en the 920-foot level, where the main drift The work done in the Utah Metal Min­
in twenty years:~ vpas driven northeast 990 feet. About 200 ing company·.s tunnel, at Bingham, is inter­
-----0---- f.eet from the shaft a large' quartz body esting. The annual report gives the follow,
IStockholders of the Seven Troughs was encountered, on which a winze is being 'ing figures: The length {)f the tunnel from
-Kindergarten Extension company, owning ,put down in seven ounce silver ore. This th( portal on the Tooele 'Side of West moun­
property at Seven Troughs, Nevada, have will ,be thoroughly prospected. tain on Jan. 11, 1913 was 8,616 feet; this
refused to ratify the sale of the mines to is an advance Since JaIL 1 1912, of 2,072
the Seven Troughs Coalition, and are de­ The 'main tunnel of the Southern PaCific feet; the length from the portal on the
mandiu·g an accounting by their officials in Gold, Copper Mining & MHling company, Bingham side on the 21st day of September,
e<mnection with their ad ministration of the nine m.iles north of Ogden, in the Sierra Hi12, was 1,970 feet; this is an advance since
affairs of the company. l'vXadre district, is now in 500 feet, and is Jan. 1, 1912, of 1,585 feet; the -total amount
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now getting Into a broken country, where of tunnel constructed since Jan. 1, 1912, is
the fissure is narrowing and increasing in 3.£57 feet; the total length of the tunnel
It is reported that an Anglo-French
value, now running about seven per cent when finished will be 11,494 feet; the total
company has been formed with a million
copper, $4 in gold, and thirty ounces in amount of tunnel constructed from the be­
dollar capitalization, to take over the South
Terras iron and tin mines in Cornwall, and si1"cr over a width of four and one-half ginning to Jan. 11, 1913, is 1Q,586 feet; there
will work the deposits of pitchblende con­ ftet. remained to be constructed Jan. 11, 1913, 908
tained in the mine, and treat the old dumps The Wasatch Mines company and the feet. There has been expended during the
also for their radium content. Among those ·Wasatch Power have incorporated, the year 1912. $98,786.97, making the total
said to have reported favorably on the former to take over the Columbus Con, amount expended by the present company
mine are Madame ,Curie and Professor Jean Saperim-Alta and Flagstaff companies at during ,the past three years, to Jan. 1, 1913,
Danyzt of the Faculte des Science, of Paris Alta, the Columbus ExtenSion, as noted be­ $341,393.22. iThis is in addition to exr>endi­
and Professor Joly, of Dublin university, fere, having failed to agree to the merger. tare 'by previous owners.. The su'm of $58,­
Seventeen thousand tons of ore are reported On February 28, the Columbus Con will 499.83 was expended during ,the past year
to be ready for shipment to a plant to be hold· another meeting to ratify the merger for labor and supplies in boring and equip­
erected in France. The approximate value on the new ·basis made necessary by the ping the tunnel, not including overhead
of the ore in sight is $8,500,000.' fa.i\ure of the first proposition. charges, such as manager, consulting en­

'Ir , 1
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THE &A L T LA K E
g;neers, Buperintenden.t, clerical help. and
dlaftsman. The average cost per foot.
omitting <these itE-ms, is about $16.45. This
cost is considered very low, and includes
railway, piping and wiring for lighting and
telephone. -The balance has been expended
in tlie replacin.g of new machinery, salaries
of consulting engineer and manager, interest
on bonded indebtedness, taxes, office ex­
penses, and the like. The officers of the
company are not 'Salaried. Boring on the
Bingham side 31:0pped Sept. 21, on account
of the Bingham strike. Work on the Tooele
. side has been continuous through the year.
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GOLDFIELD NOTES.
(Special Correspondence.)
Good ore is being broken in the pro­
gress of the work in the Velvet claIm O!
the Goldfield Merger Mines company. The
shaft has -passed the 1,450-foot level. and
on the 1,330 considerable development is
being done. The drifts on the 800 and 900
show a good quantity of excellent ore. No
effort is made at stoplng, but development
is steadily pushed and consider:3Jble ore
has been taken out in these operations.
The Jumbo Extension is making good
profits at the present time, a great tonnage
of milling ore now -being mined above the
seo. A continuous orebody has been open­
ed on this -level for 110 feet, and the re­
serves have been greatly added to. Min­
ing on the deepest levels has been sus­
pended until connections can ,be made
which will give -better ventilation.
An electric hoist has -been installed 011
the main shaft of the Booth ,property and
prepar(\tions are being made to sink the
present 340-foot shaft to great depth. K­
M. Simpson is in charge of the work.
The <k!ldfield Mines Operating com­
pany is sinking the main shaft on the Gold
Bar claim and is cutting a station at the
400-foot level. Work will 'be started On
this level. Work is being done at the 200
and 165, -When the raise on -the former b
done, the ore at lS7 feet, four feet of which
ran nearly $11)0 to the ton, will ,be extract­
ed. This carried over nine per cent cop­
per. The Victor shaft will be unwatered
and a connection made with the Gold Bar
at the 400.
Drifts are being driven north and south
at the 320 level of the main shaft of the
Lazy George claim of the Lone ,Star com­
pany. The north vein has now entered
faulted ground and struck water, ,both of
cwhich are considered good indications.
The shallow vein on the Patrick claim,
from which good assays have been obtain­
ed., will soon be developed.
The Blue BuH shaft is nearing the 700­
foot level, where lateral development will
be begun. From this point the territory
of the Blue Bull and part of the Victor
cl;tim of the C. O. D. will be explored.
;' pnm
bTl" -1
MIN I N G REV I_E W, FEB R U A R Y
The Goldfield-Oro company is doin~
some important development work in the
search for the continuation of the famous
Red Top vein of the Co~solidated. The
main shaft is now at 350 reet. A pump
will be installed after which complete
shaft sinking equipment will be provided
to sink to 1:000 feet, and work will ,te
pushed.
On the Vernal property, some very rich
ore is being ,broken. On the lOO-foot level,
there is considerable $30 ore. Above this
level some fine specimen ore has been
found On the 200-foot level, development
is in progress looking to the picking up
of the vein which is 'being worked on the
100.
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A STATE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT.
W_ Mont Ferry has introduced into the
Utah legislature, a bill to provide a mining
and metallurgical research department in
connection with the state university. The
school has done considerable research work,
but has been handicapped by lack of funds
and equipment. In spite of the difficulties
the school claims credit for much beneficial
work done in its laboratories. Among the
results claimed by the school are the pro­
cess of treating the low grade silver ores
by roasting and leaching with a salt solu·
tion, which is now being employed by the
Mines Operating company, at Park City;
method of sinter roasting followed by leach­
ing with cyanide solution for refractory
silver ores; making of low cost acid from
smelter gas; determination of presence of
graphite as the disturbing feature in the
treatment of Mercur ores, causing a low ex­
traction, and the remedy therefor; devel·
opment of the classification system used at
Good Springs, Nevada, in which slimes are
removed at the beginning; and others of a
more general nature,
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
Pahasapa Quarterly. South Dakota
Scl:ool of Mines, Rapid City, South Dakota,
Frbruary, 1913. 48 pp. Ill.
American Mining Congress, January,
1913, Bulletin. Denver. 14 pp ..
U, S. Bureau of Mines.
.S econd Annual Report of the Director
of the 'Bureau of Mines. 1911-12 J. A.
Holmes, Director_ 1912. 88 pp.
Bulletin 45. 'Sand available for filling
mine workings in tbe Northern Anthracite
Coal Basin of Pennsylvania, .by N. H. Dar­
ton. 1912_ 33 pp. S pIs
Technical Paper 32. The cement:ng
process of excluding water from oil wells
as practiced in California, by Ralph Arnold
and V. R. Garfias. 1912 10 pp.
Miners' Circular 11. Accidents from
mine cars and locomotives, by L. M. Jones.
1912. 16 pP.
%T 7735 . om I'
$ I 1
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28, 1913.
l In Adjoining States
ARIZONA.
A large force is at work on the prop­
erty of the German-American Mining com­
p·any at Vivian.
The D. & W_ mine near Vidal will be
equipped with a 100-ton Lane mill plant,.
and it is expected that operation will be­
·gin in March.
The Mescal copper mine near Prescott
will shortly resume operations, The shaft
bas been retimbered and the machinery put
in shape for rapid work.
M, W. Musgrove, of Kingman, has, been
instrumental in forming a corporation to
dredge [or gold on the Colorado river, near
the mouth of the Grand {)anyon.
T. E. 'Campbell, general manager of the
Haynes Copper company, of Jerome, states
that thirty men have been put on develop­
ment work, part of which consists in shaft
sinking_
The Humboldt Consoldiated Mines
company, operating near Pre3cott, will sink
the North :Star shaft another 100 feet
making Its depth 250 feet. Milling ore is
being stoped on the 150-foot level.
In ·the eff-ort to cut the expense caused
by maintenance of openings, the 'Copper
Queen. at Bisbee, is introducing the top­
sliCing system of caving, where conditions
are 'right fOr employing this method.
A forty-foot shaft on the Effie claim of
the New Mexico Lead and -Copper com·
panYf near Senator, shows four feet of
copper sulphide ore and galena, the full
depth of the shaft. E. S. Osborn is gen­
eral manager.
The milling plant 'of the Arizona,South­
western at Coprerville, will -soon be in com­
company have struck are recently, and
great ore-bodies are said to be in the course
of development.
Linn & Stiner recently had two cars
of ore milled from their lease on the Po­
land Uline, in the Prescott section, and
Stukey brothers expect to make a shIp­
ment of concentrates and ores to the
smeltery from the same locality.
The Arizona-Empire continues -to sack
rich ore, but ,hauling by auto truck has
ceased, the roads -having been ruined by
their use, and it is possible that some ower
method of hauling may have to be intro­
duced. This -property is near Parker.
C. N. Wilson, of Indianapolis, Indiana,
has a force of twenty-five men at work at
the C3Jbabai mine, whkh is said to have
been worked in the seventeenth century.
A large ·shipment of sUJl'plies has been sent
out from Tucson by -S. G. McWade, general
manager.
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 i H E SAL T LAK E MIN I N G REV lEW, FEB R U A R Y 2 8, 1 9 1 3. 31

The Sh~ttuck-Arizona has entered its
new silver-lead orebody on the 400 and
600. The ore contains from ten to sev­
enty-five per cent lead. The company is
developing at the rate of 900 feet a
month. Arthur Houle is superintendent
of the work of the company in the Bisbee
district.
The W. A, Clark interests have taken a
tease and bond on the American Eagle'
property, in the Whipple mountains, sixteell
miles northwest of Parker. Fifteen men
will be put at work, and two auto trucks
used to haul the ore to Vi:1al, whence it
will be shipped to the sm.eltery at Jerome.
About $1,000 worth of supplies have ,been
sent to the ,property.
About eighteen miles of transmissioll
line, belonging to the Victoria Gold Mines
company, was taken down and preparations
were being ma:1e to ship it to Los Ange!es,
from near the California line. About five
tons had been stolen and shipped, and not
even the poles remained. The rest of the
wire was recovered by Dan Richards, agent
for A. L.W'hite, the owner. The fact that
the tine was unguarded permitted the par­
tial robbery.
It is rumored that the Saginaw prop­
The Liberty Bell, at Telluride, is treat· are made, copper and lead-zinc. Thirty
ing 500-tons (If ore daily. men are employed by the company, The
Bob Callow, Jr, has taken a lease 011 Rico ~l ining eompany has developed to a
the Bald Eagle mine, at the mouth of depth of :;00 feet.
Virginia Canyon, Idaho Springs. The Telescope mine at Chatallooga, near
Lessees on the San Bernardo mine, at Silverton. i~ ill rich ore, A I'f'(' " 111 strik,~
Matterhorn, are preparing to ~tart the ill the main tnnnel of six feet of "hipping
tramway and mill connected with the ore, shows also a fourteen-inch ~treak of
property. solid I"ad 0['(>, There al'" also nJ!\lC's in
silver. gold and copper
The new electric pump has been in­
stalled at the Hubert mine, in Gilpin The Smith mill at .llollntail1 tity. Gil,
county, on the 450-foot level, and the dis­ pin COllnty, is iJeing again "ularg"fl. a
charge columns are being placed. twenty-fin, horsepower boil,,1' replacing ga"
for ]lower. Jigs, slime tahl",,, and trolllmeis
Claude Law is installing a fifteen·horse­
are ahandoned in la,'ol' of ttl(> rellowing
power electric hoist, back of No. 2 shaft
simple ':'IUiplllent. cr\l,;hel', [)ellH'r 'IliaI'll
of the Ibex at Leadville, and wiII sink in
bill. Hl11algalllali.l11 plates, alld \\'lln"ys.
search of a sulphide body below.
Helll'} 13. (,Ilrfon!. of :\ell' \'01'1" ('oti
The Op,hir mill, described some time
trolliJlg the ('OIOl'aflo Central, \\'aldorr
ago, in the Telluride section, is treating
}jh·e.s~P(>li{'all and Se\'ell-Tldn~ ni11~tJS, ;11
125 to 150 tons a day, new driving equip­
!'ilver Pill Ille , is trying to o\)l11il1 lit", \lS(
ment having been recently added.
of the Al'l!,entlne Central railway for trails
The United states smeltery, at Canoh porting th" \\'aldorf (lIT'S to the Ill'" mil
City, which formerly employed 300 men, Is at Silv",r PI\lllll', \\'hieh is SOOll to I"
preparing to resume operation. A new
"rf'('ted,
lighting system is being installed.
T1H! HnHlg;~If'r HlitH'. Oll HrowlI Inoun
F. A. Maxwell, of the East Griffith tain. Georgetown, i:-5 li1p ~('ellP of (t('tiv{
mine, at Georgetown, expects to start ship­ operations, The "hat! will be' (]N'i:enc;
ping soon. A larger f()rce will be put on ~l:n (pet and np\\, drifts run 1'01' pllrpo:-:(~;

erty in the Bisbee section is to be taken development. The ore is lead·zinc. of exploraUolI, Rphl .. 1 & ('olllp<ln". I,,;,s
over by the Calumet & Arizona. The The Santiago mine, at East Argentine. ing on the pI·opert)'. ;ll'p wf)l'ldng a fOll!
Calumet & Arizona is now using the so iJ ,shipping two cars of ore weekly to the tePll Iuch stn~ak on fhp fount; i,,\"(,l fnd1
called shrinkage system of mining, which Salida smeltery. The ore averages one which rpturns of 4\)0 ounce,"' in ,ih'cr hay,
consists in mining ,on a temporary filling to four feet wide, through five levels heen obtained, Thl-> or" i.-; ""po"",d fo
of ore, just enough of which is removed The Smuggler mill, at Telluride, is Bi~ht,y ft;:et.
to allow working space below the back, treating 350 tons of ore daily, and the new The Argo U"du('thn k Un' i'llrl'ilasill,
This method does away with the expensive plant is said to be giving excellent results, company. \\'Ilidl has a mill ,'.[ till' llHJ1ltll 0
timbering, but is only suited to moderately Some of the old stopes in the mine are th,' Argo tUllnel. at Idaho Sprill;(s, HI
hard ground, where the back will stand being pulled. tlOUllce;.; lhal it is rpHd~' II) n'i'(·i\'l' ()!"P 0

without support. The term shrinkage the lollo\\'inf!, has:,;: Tn:<lUIl<'l!1 ('113"~f"
W. O. Robinson is reported to have
stoping is a misnomer, $::,1111 pf'r ton on $:,,1111 orr', $:>~,o 1'01' $ I ,:
secured control of the Lion mill, at George­
orf', $:-LOO t'~)r $:,,00 on', $::,;::, for $(;.t!O on
town, and will overhaul it for steady op­
CALIFORNIA. $:-:.;,11 (or $/_IHI 01'1-', $::,-;-,-j rur $:-' 1111 on
eration on ores from the West Griffith,
$~,lll) for $~J,lIf' or", $I~~> for ~ \ 11110 01'l
which contain lead and zinc values.
F. C. Semmek, formerly of Salt Lake, $4.'-)0 for $11,110 all', $4"',, i"r $14,ll! or", an
O. N. l\farihaugh, manager of the Mar­
but now of Los Angeles, is managing the $;' 011 ll'-:r ton up to $:'11."" ",!I!It, :\
shall·Russell tunnel, at Empire, states that
old Ratcliff mine near Ballarat, California, chargf' 101' sampling in 10;, or I:> 1:)I1S (
work will be started as soon as arrange­
and is treating old dump material by the ovpr Xo IH-~nnlty for Zillf: {'OniO'II!.":' (In
ments can be made with the owners of
cyanide process. Mr. Semmek has es· no pas. Copper, paY $1,,1[, I"']' nnit fc
the properties, und.er which the tunnel
t!!bIished headquarters at 318·20 Higgins all iIt excess of 1.;')/, ( on \\'pt a;-,E;HY. !..";;tt
will pass.
bUilding, Los Angeles. dpdu<'t :!f { frOB] fi:·(· a~S;l\· ;111(1 pay
The Keystone mine, in Quartz Valley, cellts p<'t' Hnit for 1,,11;(11(''', Sih"'I'. p8
The Lucy Gray Extension Mining owns
Gilpin county, is worked through two till', of :--;, y, quotation. (;01<1, ~l!Ll'" I"
a group of six claims adjoining the prop­
shafts, by the Reo Mining company, and 0, .. i;' ulltlt~r 1..~; 01.:5. [:('1' I.:', oz~
erty of the Lucy Gray Mining company,
three feet of $8-ore has been encountered $1~.iil) per oz, The will has II ('apacity I
near Lyons, California. The cClmpany
in sinking. Plans for a mill are being
has developed by means of a 30·foot tun­
considered.
nel, and a 40-foot shaft, and has some
good shipping ore in sight. Among the The Tomboy tramway, in the Telluride IDAHO
owners and heavy stockholders are W. H. section, is working smoothly, and the pack
Andrews, R. F, D No, 2, Los Angeles, and and wagon transportation wiII soon be ThE' Tamanl<'h &: Cw,ll'l', ill '.;illE' ,Ii
L. P. Kibler, and D. S. Binford, of River, l'>bandoned, thus cutting out an item of dbtrkt. is shippinl!, ('Ollcelllrates and en"
side, California. heavy expense, both for actual hauling and ot'(:) reg'ularly. 1'11(> IU-\\ ~;()rl;llg: (!qul
maintenance of roads, 111Bllt and two tlliip tl';lll1\Uj~' ari' in E'
COLORADO. The new Rice-Wellington mill, at Rico, ('pllPIJt sh[ll)(',
has started. The capacity is 100 tons. on \\'ork has hePlI (h, 1;1 \-('11 011 til" propos'
Henry B. Clifford, of New York. has the lead-zinc ores of this company, The ellstoHl luilJ L) he !lI'P("tpd !ll rht' B(!;1V
taken a lease on the Mendota mine, at Argentine is shipping thirty-five tons daily disnk't. C;l'udillg' h,,~ h"foll fi!,],1",'], at
Silver Plume. from a depth of 175 feet. Two classes pari. of 111P hnnher Hilll nl;l!·hlllf'l'Y snl

"I'm Cu ­ at
 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G R E-V lEW, FEe R U A R Y 28, 1913.

ped. The winter season began early and The Butte & Duluth, at Butte, has start­ two cars of ore soon. The property is
has been severe, but work will be resumed ed up its copper leaching plant at a capac· owned I;y Ely and McGill people and is un·
as soon as possible. It is said that Idora ity of 200 tons a day. It is expected that der the management of August Munter.
stockholders are interested In the plant. the cost of producing pure copper will be The Charleston Hill Mining company
Perry Brothers and M. F. Tytler have much less than smelting costs, although no has transferred the West Virginia No.1,
a lease on the Mother Lode mine, near costs are yet given out. and the Charleston Hill No. 2 properties to
Elk City, owned by George Brown. The Seven cars of ore have been shipped, the National Miines company, of National,
custom mill is running on ore from an since the middle of January, from the thus bringing tn an end the litigation which
eight-foot vein. Florence mine at Neihart, owned by the troubled the camp so long.
George Widmeyer has made a second Florence Mining and Milling company. The
From Carroll interesting reports are
shipment from the Little Butte mine, on last two gave net returns of $600 each.
corning. Stall brothers are working below
Deadwood mountain, six miles southeast Drifting is being pushed on the 500-foot
the 2'50-level in their mine and expect to
of Elk City. High grade is shipped .from level.
strike a good orebody. Dan Craig has a
a four-foot vein at the bottom of a winze W. I. Higgins, of Deer Lodge, has pur· good manganese property near the Stall
sunk 600 feet from the portal of the main chased, with 'N. J. Bielenberg, the Pritchett shaft, and C. J. Pratt, of Denver, will start
adit. Three distinct ore shoots are ex· group near Twin Bridges. . A small con­ operations on his ground adjoining the
posed by a 3,000-foot adit. Low grade- ore centrating plant was erected two years ago Craig ciaim, in the spring.
is treated in a one stamp mill. and several hundred tons of ore run The tunnel on the Whitlatch property,
through, yielding rich concentrates, with
K. H. Kleinschmidt states that the win· near AUstin, has penetrated about six feet
a ratio of concentration of seven tn one.
ter's development at the property of the of good milling ore, and the tunnel will
Machinery has been purchased and a con­
Blue Jacket Oopper company, near Home­ be extended in the expectation of cutting
tract let to drive a 1,000-foot crosscut. other veins. Charles F. Littrell is general
stead, from which point ore is shipped, has
been satisfactory. Several cars were The Pilot Butta Mlining company, at manager for the company. which owns fif­
shipped last season at a profit to .the Butte, is continuing the sinking of its shaft. te€ n claims in this section. North Dakota
Tacoma smeltery, and more men will be At a depth of 1,600 feet, the shaft encoun­ interests control the company.
put on this spring, in an endeavor to ship tered a copper vein,· in which only zinc
An attempt is being mad.e by the rail­
as much ore as possible during the short vll.lues were found at 'higher levels. At
road commission to have the rates from
season. The Red Ledge group in the l,e80 feet, the shaft 'Was still in the
Ely to Salt Lake smelteries reduced. The
same section will be developed by Boise vein, which averaged four feet wide. A
commission points out that the rate Is
people. The Seven Devils district is station will be cut on the 2,000 level and
nearly three times as great from Ely as
promising, with these mines developing, the vein crosscut. The vein is believed to
from Goldfield and shows also that it is
and the Peacock, controlled by Messrs. be the Berlin vein, which the North
higher than for many other points in the
Houlter and Houser, of Helena, Mlontana, Butte is working. It is expected that ship­
state. Tables of distances are given, rates
about to be opened. ments will be made by August.
from various points and the difference be­
With the new unit installed, the Snow­ The output for the Butte mines in Jan­ tween these and the Ely rates brought out.
storm mill. at Mullan, is treating 150 tons uary is given as follows. in tons of ore,
A. S. Ross and associates of Salt Lake
per day. This is short of the mill ca­ pounds copper per ton and total pounds,
City, has taken over the Cash Boy prop­
pacity of 200 tons. which will be turned respectively; Bos. & Mont.. 102,120, 65,
erty, which Hes west of the Tonopah Mer­
out soon. The delay is d~e to a lack ot 6,637,800; Anaconda, 160,000, 61, 9,760,000; ger and the Tonopah: Mining propertdes
crushers. These have been ordered and Butte & Bos., 13,720, 62, 850,640; Washoe. and the company has now been reorganiZed
will be installed immediately on arrivaL 7,100, 61, 433,100; Parrot, 2,900, 60, 174,000; with Mr. Ross, president and director. and
The ore runs from two to three per cent Trenton, 12,200, 61, 744,200; North Butte, Maurice M. Johnson, E. H. Mead and Harry
copper, with small veins of silver. The 30,120, 70, 2,108.400; B,utte Coal., 34,000, S. Knight, of Salt Lake, and George H.
improvements in the mill and the unit just 7(1, 2380,QOO; East Butte, 10,820, 110, 1,190,­ Thatcher, attorney-general of Nevada. direc­
completed reduce this product to a grade . 200; Tuolumne, 4,600, 120, 552,000; Orig. tors. The shaft is being sunk at the rate
of 20 per cent copper and 25 ounces or inal, 10,200, 60. 612,000; Alex Scott, 7,500, of three feet daily, now being below 640
silver. . Last year the company paid Its 110, 82-5,000; DaviS-Daly, 2,400, 110, 264,00(1, feet.
stockholders $75,000 in dividends. With Totals, 397,680, 67, 26,531,340. Steve Currie has penetrated a vein
the increased output and the decreased cost
which is believed to be the famous old
[)f handling this is expected to be surpass­ NEVADA.
Wedekind vein. three miles from Reno. It
ed in 1913. is said that the work at this spot was
The Nevada-Denver, of Yerington, re­
abandoned twelve years ago, after 190 feet
MONTANA. cently shipped its first car of ore to the
of shaft had been put down and no ship­
The Ohio-Kentucky, Consolidated Mines ping ore found. On the next round, Cur·
The Butte & London at Butte will soon company and the Nevada-Utah holdings at rie struck the ore. The Raymond Develop­
Itart sinking its shaft from 1,130 feet to Pioche are to consolidate. The Amalga­ ment company was organized to carryon
,600 feet. and crosscut to the limits of the mated Pioche will be the operating com­ the work. Drifting will be started at the
lroperty. pany. 215·foot level. Five men are now at work
East Butte is making a net profit ot C. ~. McIntosh has purchased from John on the property.
120,000 a month. The second note 1'01' 'Cleghorn, of Salt Lake. the half interest in
The French Western Exploration 31:')
100.000 was paid February 1, from earn­ th~ option given by F. M. Schick, of five
Reduction company, composed of }<'rench
19S. There remains to be paid. $300,000. claims in the 'Rochester group, and con­ capitalists, has taken over the old mill of
The Barnes·King company made $32,000 trolled by the Original Rochester Mines the Nevada Goldfield Reduction oOmpaliY
:;om the first five weeks operation of the company. at Goldfield, the Tokop mine in Gold Moun­
forth .Mocassin mine, at Butte. Under­ Max Ziege, secretary of the Gold King o tain district, the Orlean and the Silver
round developments are favorable, :and Mining company, owning property in the King mines in Horn~;ilver district, and will
1e mill should soon be treating 200 tons northwestern portion of White Pine coun­ clean out the shaft on the Orlean, sink it
lily. ty, state,; that the company expects to ship further and contin,ue the development on

mrt $ P . '5
tnu !iltttt:ttr
if

I
 THE SAL T L A K E
the other properties. A hoist is now being
installed. E. Perrier de Ja Bathle is gen·
eral manager for the company.
The Seven Troughs Mining company, of
Seven Troughs, has been reorganized with
the following officers, residents of Salt
Lake City and Provo, Utah': John Dern,
president; R. J. Evans, vice-president; Geo.
H. Dern, secretary and treasurer; L. A.
Friedman and W. Lester Mangum, addi·
tional directors. Mr. Friedman 'was reap·
pointed general manager. The property is
under lease until October, at which time
the company plans to sink its winze deeper
in search of ore.
At National development is proceeding
at a good rate. Walker brothers are taking
out some high-grade silver ore from the
Cheefoo mine and will soon ship. The
Mayflower National Mines company has let
a new lease to the Stall brothers, adjoin­
ing the Hatch lease on the Mayflower lode.
The National Mines company has cut a
station in the NO.5 tunnel and is installing
a large plant for deep sinking. The Hatch
lease and the V'.7heeler lease on the ,\Vhite
lwcks, are pushing development. A new
lease is to be let on the Radiator Hill prop.
erty and the Dwy€ r tunnel is being cleaned
out for the purpose, Development will be
started on the National Extension lease of
the Charleston Hill Gold Mining company's
ground, and the same company is about to
sink a shaft on its Swedes group. Among
other companies which have started or are
about to start development are the Medal·
lion Gold MIning company, Kennedy-Mac·
Donald Mining company, the Shiloh group,
and the J ewsharp-Bell group.
WASHINGTON.
The Security 'Copper company has been
organized in Spokane with a capitalization
of $1,000,000 ,to take over and develop prop­
erty in the Chewelah district. H. A.
Sprague was elected president; D. T. Alex­
ander, vice'president; L. D. Geeslin, treas·
urer; W. W. Gifford, secretary, and L. K.
Armstrong, M. E., manager. The company
has purchased for $30,000 the Matterhorn
group, which adjoins the Standard Chewe­
lah, the scene of a recent strike of high.
grade silver-copper ore, and the Juno-Echo,
a shipper being prepared for continuous
production. Composed of three claims hav·
ing an area of 60 acres, the Security group
is traversed by strong leads in which it is
stated silver-copper values have been ex·
posed. The company will engage in devel­
opment, with a view of placing the property
on the shipping list in the shortest possible
period. .Machinery will b€ installed, a
shaft put down and crosscuts driven to the
ledges 'Vork will be'gin as soon as snow
leaves.
MIN I N G REV lEW, FEB R U A R Y 28, 1 9 1 3. 33
TRADE NOTES. shells. All the converters are to be of the
'Great Falls vertical type, twelve feet in
F. H. Bostwick, western representative diameter.
of Wellman-Seaver·M~rgan company, ot --,--01----­
'Cleveland, Ohio, has sold to the Silver King CATALOGS RECEIVED.
Coalition Mining company a large electrical
hoist similar to the one installed at the Hecla Heport on Bental Permissible Powder,
mine, at Burke, Idaho. The hoist will be Independent Powder Co., Joplin, Mo. 43
used in sinking the winze in the Alliance pp. III. Describes interesting tests made
tunnel. Wilson & Ott, of Salt Lake, will at Mine 7, Girard ,coal Co., Radley, Kansas.
make the installation. Rock Dril! Sharpeners. The Numa Rock
At the R. R. R. mine, in southern Arizo­ Drill ,Sharpener Co., Salt Lake C;ty. Des·
na, a 65·horsepower Fairbanks·Morse gaso­ cription of machines, tempering steel, testi­
line engine will furnish power for the new monials and illustrations of equipment and
compresSOr. results.
Landes & Company, jobbers and dealers Luitweiler System Non Pu'sating
in contractor's machinery and motor trucks, Pumps, General Catalog No. 11, of the
have taken office room in 1,505 Walker Bank Luitwieler Pumping Engine Co., Rochester,
building, Salt L,ake, and are prepared to N. Y., Pacific Coast Branch, 707 North
furnish the Avery steel tired motor trucks Main 'St., Los 'Angeles 47 pp. III. Com­
to 'mining companies having haulage prob­ plete description of the Luitweiler system.
lems over desert roads. Hydro·pneumatic pressure systems.
Irrigation and Pumping Methods in
The 1<'. C. Richmond Machinery com­
Southern California. Booklet No. 61 of the
p,my, of Salt Lake, has the agency for
Luitwieler Pumping Engine Co., Rochester,
the Little Giant commercial car, made by.
N. Y_ 24 pp. III.
the Chicago Pneumatic Tool company. About
March 10th a shipment of these cars is ex·
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pected, and several orders have already NEW BOOKS.
been placed. These trucks are especially
adapted to light delivery work, and are Book of Standards, published by the Na­
very efficient over rough country roads. tional Tube company, Pittsburgl), Pennsyl­
The Minneapolis Steel & Machinery com­ vania, 1913, and furnished by the Salt Lake
pany, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been Mining Review. 560 liP. Flexible leather
awarded the contract for the steel for the cover, Canterbury Bible paper, pages 4-in.
new Davenport Hotel at Spokane, Wash­ by 6~-in. Thickness of book, %-in. Price,
ington. This.is the largest single order of $2.00.
building steel ever received by the company, This book of standards has been com
The order aggregates 2,100 tons and the pletely revised, and thoroughly indexed,
price is about $150,000. Eight weeks will there being over t,OOO references in the in­
be required to place it in position, and 100 dex. The size is excellent for a pocket book.
twenty·ton cars will be required to trans· Among the articles are descriptions of the
port it from the factory, making a train manufacture of both welded and seamless
4,000 feet long. Delivery is to be made pipe, protective coatings, tubular electric
March 20th. The Brayton Et'ngineering com­ line poles, strength of tubes and cylinders
pany will do the construction work. under internal liquid pressure, properties or
air gas, steam and water, etc. The tables
The local office of the Allis-Chalmers are very complete, including the common
company has secured the contract for the tables of general engineering value as well
crushing and screening machinery for the as special tables of particular application
new 350-ton mill of the Buckhorn Miue!;
to tubular products. Of more than passing
company, at Buckhorn, Nevada. The L. C. interest to miners are the various designs
Trent Engineering company, of Reno, Ne­ for pipe ladders, which are illustrated. The
vada, will furnish the entire equipment, ot book is completed with an exhaustive glos­
wooden tanks, Dorr classifiers, Perrin press· sary of terms used in the trade. For those
es, etc., and will equip the crushing de­
using pipe material of any kind, this book
partment with Allis·Chalmers equipment. should be an invaluable aid.
The company has received direct the con·
tract for the refinery equipment, including
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water jacketed melting furnace, English cu­ The Manhattan Whale Mining company,
peling furnace and blower equipment. controlled by G. S. Johnson, of San Fran­
cisco, has resumed operations at :'lanhat·
The Allis·Chalmers company, of Milwau·
tan, ::--;evada. The mine has a shaft 115 feet
kee, Wisconsin, has been awarded the con­
deep and has done a little underground
tracts for seventeen converter shells and
work, during which some specimen ore waE
fourteen stands, from various Arizona com­ taken out. The recent finds on th" adjoin
panies. The United Verde will have five ing Crescent seem to be going into tht
stands and six shells; the Calumet and Ari· Whale, so that it has been decided to agair
zona, six stands and seven shells; the Ari­ w(lrk the propertY. vlhich has been shut
zona Copper company, three stands and four down since the panic.
 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, FEB R U A R V 28, 1 913.

THB STOCK BXCHANGE. February 15. old Bullfrog Gold Bar company, and another
Silver, 62\1; cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ property in the .Bullfrog district of Nevada.
Quotations on the local exchange, Friday thode, $15.77'1.0; zinc (St. Louis), $6.22%.

morning, February 21: E. C. Watson, of Goldfield, is secretary of

February 17.
),18tell Stoeks.
Silver, 62 cents; lead, $4 .35; copper ca­ the company.

~-=,.-_ _ _ . . Bid. I Asked.

thode, $15.30; zinc (St. Louis). $6.22%.

[
February 18.

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Beck Tunnel ............. 1$ .08%1$ .10

Bingham Amalgamated "'1 .04'1z .06

Silver, 62 cents; lead, $4.35: copper ca­ R. C. Kinney, of the Alameda Mining

Black Jack ............... .08 I .11

thode, $15.30; zinc (St. Louis), $6.25.
company, operating at Almeda, near Grants
',Cedar-Talisman . . . . . . . . . . \ .00%[ .Ul
February 19.
Colorado Mining ......... .15 .16
Pass, Oregon, states that as soon as the
Colorado Consolidated ..... .10 1 .14
Silver, 62 cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­

Consolidated Mereur ..... ........ .10

thode, $15.30; zinc (St. Louis), $6.25. roads are in shape, a 16-table concentrating

Crown oint .............. . Q21,6 1 .03

February 20.
plant of a capacity of 200 tons daily, Will
Daly ...................... 1.00 1.30
Silver, 61 % cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­

Daly-Judge .............. 6.20 1 6.45

thode, $15.30; zinc (St. Louis), $6.25. be hauled in. Underground work is pro­

Dragon . ................. .15 .30

East Prince............... .01 .01%

February 21. gressing favorably.

East Crown Point ....... ........ .02

Silver, 61% cents; lead. $4.35; copper ca­

East Tmtic Consolidated . . . . . . . . . . 1 .01

thode, $15.30. zinc (St. Louis), $6.25.
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East Tintic Development. .1.01
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Emerald . .,............... .01 [ .10
NEW YORK METAL MARKET. The Wabash mine, at Park City, Utah,
Gold Chain ..............
Grand Central ........ ..
.39
75
I .41

.77
New York, Feb. 21.--Copper, firm; spot

may resume operations soon. ,It was clos­

Indian Queen ... , ....... ,\ ...... ,.[ r.Ol
and February, $14,25 bid; March, April and ed down several years ago ,by water, hut

Iron Blossom ............. 1.32 % 1 1. 35

May, $14.25@$14.75; electrolytic, $15.0U;
the Snake .Creek drainage tunnel is ex­
IrOn King ................ : ,01 .. ~ .... .
lake, $15.25; casting, $14.75.

Joe Bowers ............... [ .00'lz1 ..... · ..

Tin, steady. spot, $48.50@48.67%; Feb­ pected to unwater the mine. The company

\Keystone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : ........ 1 .20

ruary, $48.25@48.87'1z; March, $47,15@48.2o;
Kin!\' William ............. 1
Lehl Tmtlc ...............
.06 I'I,
.OO~.'
.06 'Iz

.01

April, $47,50@48.00.
Lead, steady; $4.25@4.35.

has spent half a million in developmem:

Spelter, quiet; $6.25@6.35.

:Sales day on assessment 46 has been post­

Little Bell ....................... [ .35

Lower Mammot!). .,....... .04 I .05

Antimony, quiet; Cookson's, $9.30@9.4(). poned to April 10th.

Musgrove ........ ........ .08 1 .15

Iron, steady and unchanged.

Mammoth ................. .. ..... 1 1. 00

Copper arrivals, 445 tons. Exports thIs -----{)----­
Mason Va ley....... ...... 7.00 ~.50
month, 23,068 tons. London copper, steady;

May Day ................. .14 .16

spot, £64 7s 6d; futures, £64 7s 6d. NEW YORK 1.ISTBD STOCKS.

Mineral Flat ... ......... .01 .02

Local exchange sales of tin, 35 tons. Lon­ -_._----_._---­ ~=;==:==:;::::;==

Mountain Lake ........... .02 I .05

don tin, qUiet; spot, £218 lOs; futures, £214 ·-·--·-------TSaJes.1 H. 1 I.. [e.ose

Nevada Hills . ........... 1.02¥.! 1.30

, 15s.

New York ........................ 1

Ohio C'OPper .............. .61 I ,00%

.67

JAndon lead, £16 12s 6d.

London spelter, £25.
g~i~field' 'c~;':':: :::l2.fggI3~~~I[3~~1 3~~
Opohongo ............ .. .. I .05 .06
Iron-Cleveland warrants, 60s 10'hd in Nevada Consolidated. 1 1,400116% 16¥.\. 16%
'Ray Consolidated ... 800 17 % 17 17

Pioche Demijohn.......... .02'41 .03%

London. Tennessee Copper .·1 500' 36 35 % I 36

Pioche Metals ............ .00'lz1 .01

Miami Copper ..... 1 SOOI 22 % 22 %, 22 %

P.tts}:mrgh-Idaho ......... '. . . . . . . . . [ 1. 25

The Bullfrog Bar Consolidated Utah Copper ...... '11,300\ 51 150%1 51

Plutus .... , ... '.. :~,....... .06'hl .U7

Prince Consolidated . ....

Richmond & Anaconda.... ........
.64 I .61

.10

Mines company has been organized to ac­ Inspiration .... ....

Studebaker Con. ....
300 16
16,
500 27% 27 1
16

27%

quire the property formerly owned by the Ontarto Sliver ...... ....... 3 2,%: 3

RexalJ .................... .01 I ...... ..

Seven Troughs ............ .01 '%, 1 .09

Silver King Coalition ... 2.70 [ ~.oo

LIST OF DIVIDEND·PAVING STOCKS.
.75 I .. · .....

Silver King Consolidated..

South Pacific ............. .01 % 1 .15
-
Sioux Consolidated ........ .03 .04 %
D:vidends on Stock Issued
South Iron Blo~som . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
Swansea ConsolIdated ....
United Tintlc ..............
.01.
.OO%!
Uncle Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I
.00%

.03

.01

.10

NAME OF COMPANY
No. of
Shares Value
Par
i Paid in I Total to Date of Payment

Utah Consolidated ........

Union Chief ................
.01'4!
.05 %1
.01 %

.07
_ . _ - - - - - - - - _ . _ ­ ~·-------!----·I--·--·-I------ - - - . - . - - ­ I 1913
Date D a t e ! Amount

Victoria Consolidated ..... .55 .57

Annie Laurie . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
500,000 $25.00 I • • • • • • • • • $ 439,561 April, '05 $ .50

Wilbert . ...... .......... .07 .09

Beck Tunnel Con........... . 1,000,000
.10
675,000 Oct. 20, '07 .02

Yankee Consolidated ......

Yerington Copper ......... 1
Unlisted Stocks.
.13
.04 I
.15

.10

Bingham & New Haven ... "

Boston- Sunsh ine .......... .

Bul ion B. & Champion ..... . 1,000,000

400,000
250,000
5.00
1.00
10.00
::::::::: 480,219
. ....... .
2,768,400
27,261
July 12, '12
Nov. 2, '11
July 11, '08
.10

.03%

.10

Carisa ................ _ ... .

Centennial-Eureka. ... . ..

Century ........ , ......... .

600,000
100,000
150,000
1. 00
25.00
1.00
, " " I
· .. .... .
.,.
~

,.
60,000
3,600,000
39,000
Dec. '06
Oct. 16, '12
Feb. 15, '07
1.
.01

50

.02

Chief Consolidated ........ .

1,000,000 1. 00 ! 87,000 87,000 Feb. 3, '13 .10

2,600,000 Dec. 20, '12 .03

I
Colorado ................. .
1,000,000 .20

Columbus Con............. .
300,000 5,00 212,623 Oct. 15, '07 .20

Gons. Meteur .............. .

1,000,000 5.00 3,420,312 July 10, '12 .03

Cliff Mining Co........ , ... ,

300,000 1.00 30,000 90,000 Jan. 13, '13 .10

Dalton & Lark ............ .

2,500,000 1. 00 350,000 July, '01 .1J%

Daly Judge ........ , ...... .

300,000 1.00 495,000 Dec. 20, '12 .30

}!"orenoon Sales.
Cedar Talisman, 7,300 at %c.

Daly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
150,000 20.00 , ......
" 2,925,000
6,606,000
Mch., '97
Jan. 15, '13
.25

.15

Daly West. ................ .

180.000 20.00 27,000
Iron Blossom, 450 at $1.35.
Eagle & Blue Bell. ....... .
1,000.000 1.00 44,457 44,457 J!'eb. 1. '10 .05

Sioux Con., 500 at 3%c.

Victoria Con., 400 at 55c.

Gemini Keystone .......... .

5,000 100.00 , ....... .

2,060,000 Nov. 1, '12 6.00

Gold Chain ................ .

1,000,000 30,000 100,000 Feb. 25, 13 .03

Shares sold, 8,600.

Grand Centra\. ........... .
600.000 1. 00 1,452,750 Oct. 25, 12 .(J~
Selling value, $899.75.
.05

Open Board.

Horn Si lver ............... ,

Iron Blossom ............. .

1,000,000
400,000 25.00
.10
'ioo,ooo' . 5,662,O()0
1,470,000
60,000
Sept. 30, '07
Jan. 25, '13
Sept. 22. '10
.10

,05

Beck Tunnel, 300 at 9%c.

Little Bell ................ .
300,000 1.00
Cedar Talisman, 1.700 at %c.
I,ower Mammoth .......... .
250.000 1.00 65,073 Dec. 29, '09 . On!!

Mammoth ........ , ....... .

400.000 .25
2,280,000 \ Oct. 10, '12 .15

.25
· .24,000' .
Colorado, 100 at 15c.
.03

Prince Can., 300 at 65c.

May Day .................. .
800,000 132,OOU Feb. 10. '13
Swansea, 7,000 at Ie.
Moscow M. & M. Co........ .
1,000,000 1.00 16,352 32,704 Feb. 15, '13 .01

Shares sold, 9,700.

Mountain View ............ .
150,000 1.00 12,554 Aug., '06 .06

Selling value, $390.25.

Newhouse ................ .
600.000 10.00 600,000 Nov. 20, '07 .50

~~"---o----·------- ~orthern L'ght. ........... . 400,000

5.00 20,000 Feb., '04 .05

Ontario .................•. '

150,000 100.00 14,962,500 Dec., '02 .30%

THE LOCAL METAl, MARKET. Opohongo ................. '

1,000,000 .25
7,990 74,916 Jan. 30., '13 .02

Petro ..................... .
800,000 1.00 65,000 Aug., '06 .04

February 10. Quincy ................... .

150,000 .50
1,100,000 Mch., '02 1.50

. Silver, 61 % cents; lead, $4.25; copper ca­ Sacramento ............... .

1,000,000 5.00 308,000 Dec., '06 .00'lz

thode, $15.77%; zinc (St. Louis), $6.25. Salva tor ............... _.. .
200,000 1.00 6,500 Aug., '04 .01

February 11. Silver King Coalition ...... .

1,250,000 5.00 12,834,885 Dec. 24, '12 .25

Srver, 61 % cents: lead, $4.35; copp<'r ca­ Silver Shield .............. .

300,000 1.00 4.50() Feb., '01

Sioux Cons................ .
750.000 1.00 872,630 July 25, '11 .04
thode, $15.72 %; zinc (St. Louis), $6.25. 470,000 Apr" '04 .02%

300.000 1.00
Holiday.
February 12. ~~u;~s~:.a.~~:~:::::::::::: :1 100.000
5.00 334,500 Mch., '07 .05

Tetro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 300,000
1.00 18,000 Dec., '04 .01

February 13­ Uncle Sam Cons. . . . . . . . . . . , 750,000

1.00 470,000 Sept. 20, '11 .05

Silver, 61 % cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ gta~ Copper. .. . .......... I 2,500.000
10.00 17,068,722 Dec. 30, '12 .75

thode, $15.72%; zinc (St. Louis), $6 ~2%. 100,000

10.00 281,860 Dec. 21, '10 .02
F'ebl'tlary 14. ~}E::':~i~:.:.:.:.:.:.. .:......:..'.:.:.:.:..'.:.! 700.000
I,QOO.OOO
6.00
1.00
7,500,000
207,500
Dec. 12,
Meh. 25, '10
'12 1.00
.04
Silver, 61% cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ Yankee Cons..... , ........ . 1.000.000
1. 00 · '10 000' . 192500 Feb. 1 '13 .01
thode, $15.77'1z. zinc (St. Louis), $6.22%.
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 THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, FEB R U A R Y 2 8, 1 9 1 3. 35

BANKING HOUSES

ONE OF

McCORNICK & CO. TWO THINGS Knowing how-­

BANKERS

Esta.blished 187. Salt Lake City, Uta.h

Has boon made forcibly
Being willing-­
apparent to us recently.

Joseph F, Smith, Prt"8. Rooney T. Badger, Caphter

Either advertising has Having facilities-­
produced the most mar­
UTAH STATE NATION~L BANK velous results or-the peo­
Capital, $600.000. Surplus and Undivided

pl~ have suddenly awak·

Profits. $297.687.36. Depoalts $6.042.229
All these are factors in
ened to th~ realization of
O()r~ ~aln And let South Stsc. Selt Lake City, Uta.h SERVICE.
our unsurpaswd facilities
for giving them just about
A. H. PI!ABODY, eMhieT
the right thing in Bank­ Try the SERVICES of

MERCHANTS BANK
ing Service. ·Both in the
city and outside new
Walker Brothers

ConI" Mall 11M! BrOIdwl,. s.m UKE cm, lUll

checking accounts and
4 I'll Ce.1 IA St,llp .... nil. CtrIlllulH Stf.1Y BellS

savings accounts have Bankers

been coming to us in large

numbers. Why not yours? You can bank here by mall and
SALT LAKE SECURITY &, TRUST CO. get "Walker Bank service."
3% on Checking 4% on SavIngs

6% on Time Deposits

Capital and Surplus, $400,000

F. E. MeGURRIN. President

32 Main Street Salt Lake City

Utab Savings &Trust Co. HENDRIE RUBBER CO., THE W. C.
Manufacturers.

A Commercial aud Savia,s Bank

Leather Beltin!!. Pioneer lUng Packing,
Nearly 24 Years Old Mechanical Rubber Goads. Automobile
Tires Distributors of Anchor Packing.
210 S W. Temple St • Salt Lake ()ity.

HOTEL STANFORD 235 Main Street Denver. ' I , o s Angeles.

Ban Franci$co's New Leadina: Hotel

lEAR,NY STREET, SAN PItANCISCO THERE MAY BE A FORTUNE FOR YOU IN THIS HAND
(Between Sutter and Bush) Goldfield was discovered by a kicking mule, Cobalt by a
ADJOINING THE campfire. You may be sittin'g, right now on the making of a
MINING STOCK EXCHANGE great mine. This hand Is holding out to you a test from
The Most Centrally Located Hotel in theOlty WAY'S POCKET SMELTER
US grasp offers you opportunity, for
All MODERN IMPROVEMENTS by Way's Process, you can test,
HEADQUARTERS FOR MINING MEN right on the spot, any rock you
find. You can make fifty tests for
the cost of one good assay. Can
you afford to take chances of over­
THE looking a good mine? .
Write today your name on the mar­
ROESSLER , HASSLACHER gin of this ad. It will bring you a
copy of th~ "Prospector's Outfit," which tells many things
CHEMICAL COMPANY that will save you money.
t 100 WILLIAM ST.. N.W YORK
J. W. SWAREN & COMPANY
Cyanidt 98·99 ~ Room 806, 112 Market St. San Francisco, Cal,

I Cyanldt of
Sodium 128·180~
Alld Olhll Ch,IIIII.I. for
.11I.... '.r..... GEO. A. WHITAKER Moved to 62 West
2nd SOUlh. Salt Lake

Get Next to The Mine Owner,

The Mill Man Through

Invites all of his friends and customers to meet him at
the new loeallon, where a first-class smoke can be se-
The Mining Review Wholesale and Retail cured at all times Phone Wasatch 664

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36 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, FEB RU A RY 28, 1913.

DIRECTOI~Y OF ENGJN EERS

ADAMSON, W. G. CONNOR, P. E. JENNINGS, E. P.

Surveyor and Draftsman.
Consulting Mining Engineer and Consulting Mining Engineer
Mruchine DeSign, Patent Drawings,
Metallurgist.. Art Designs. Map Work of All Kinds. 819 Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City.
Winnemucca, Nevada. 224 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City.
P. O. Box 69. P. o. BoXB4!
Phone Wasatch 5579

ARNOLD, FISHER & CALVERT CRAIG, W. J. JOHNSON, JAY ELIOT

Consulting Geologists and Engineers. Mining Engineer.
Mining Engineer.
Coal, Oil, Gas and Non·Metalliferous For Prospects or Developed Mines,
Deposits. write me.
223 Boston Bldg., Salt Lake City.
711 Kearns ·Bldg., Salt yake City. Third Ave. & PSt., Salt Lake City.

BALLIET, LETSON, E. M., C. E. DUNYON, N. A. KNOWLTON, A, D.

Mining Engineer.
Mining and Hydraulic Engineer.
Expert Examination and Develop­
Efficiency Engineer on Mine Operating ment a Specialty. U. S. Minp,ral Surveyor.
721·722 Mcintyre Bldg., Salt Lake City. 326 Judge DJdg.,
Anvone can tell how much he is mak· Phone W ••a!ch 4l')6 Salt Lake City.
ing: but can you tell how much you
are losing?
Are you trying to fill a barrel that is FISK, WINTHROP W., B. S.
leaking between every stave? LEE, MURRAY
Mining Engineer. MinIng Engineer.
Correspondence solicited.
Twenty·eight years Practice, Eight
Years Experience in Mexico. U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor.
Tonopah, Nevada. Stockton, Utah.
Jarbidge, Nevada.

BROOKS, CHAS. ·P. GENERAL ENGINEERING CO., THE LEGGAT, J. BENTON

Consulting .r.d Contracting Engineers
Civil and Mining Engineer. Consulting and Mining Engineer.
U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor Complete Ore Testing Plant. Engi­
neers or Contractors for all Cla.sses
228 Do01y Elk., Salt Lake City. of Reduction Plants. 224 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City.
Phone W:asatch 1.9S:t Salt Lake City. Phone WasatchH79

HALE, FRED A., JR. MAGUIRE, DON

BROWN, G. CHESTER Geologist and Mineralogist.
Mining Engineer.
Mining Engineer. Mine examinations in any part of the
Gooq. Springs, Nevada. world.
609 Mills Bldg., San Francisco. 54!) 25th St., Ogden, Utah.
Assistant General Manager" Yellow Pine Mining Co. Phone Ogden 21.J-J

Albert Burch Celasio Caetanl Oscar H. Hef'Jhey

BURCH,CAETANI & HERSHEY HOWARD, L. O. McCASKELL, J. A.
Mining, Metallurgy and Mining Mining Engineer. Mining Engineer.
Geology.
Crocker Bldg., San FrancIsco. Associate Editor, Salt Lake Mining
503 Felt Bldg., Salt Lake City.
Cable: "Burch n Cod.., Bedford McNeill, Review.

or H Caetani H Mureing & Neal Phone Wasatch tIp.

IRELAND, T. W. OVERSTROM, G. A.
BURKE, JAS. J. & CO. Consulting Engineer.
Mine Examinations and Reports.
Mining and Ore Dressing.
Engineers and Contractors Years of Actual Experience in Mine 507 Eugene Germaine Bldg., Los Angeles.
Development and Operation, and in
Milling Practice. Success in Locat·
Mining and Milling Machinery and ing Faulted Veins. Placer Mining a
Steel Construction. Specialty. Correspondence Solicited. PACK, MOSHER F.
Best of References. Consulting Engineer.

705·706 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City. Economic and Structural Geologist.

1026 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City.

Golden, Utah.
Phone Wasatcb .,61 Phones Wasatch6cr6~ Hyland 361-J

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